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In reply to the discussion: Amid ATF Fast And Furious Scandal, House Democrats Point To Weak Gun Laws [View all]oneshooter
(8,614 posts)48. The law makes it damned difficult to even legally export to a "friendly" country.
It took me nearly six months to send a 1755 flint musket to a museum in Canada.
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Amid ATF Fast And Furious Scandal, House Democrats Point To Weak Gun Laws [View all]
SecularMotion
Jun 2012
OP
Obviously, the gun laws were too weak to prevent the ATF from doing what it did.
AnotherMcIntosh
Jun 2012
#8
How in the world wouldn't ITAR cover people driving guns into mexico?
OneTenthofOnePercent
Jun 2012
#15
If an attorney (or AG) can't prosocute expressly illegal behaviour under clearly worded laws...
OneTenthofOnePercent
Jun 2012
#37
I understand your argument, "The old laws don't or aren't working"...
OneTenthofOnePercent
Jun 2012
#39
The 1968 GCA expressly forbids nonlicensed civilians from exporting/importing firearms
OneTenthofOnePercent
Jun 2012
#44
In other words, you were wrong: there is no law explicitly against gun trafficking.
DanTex
Jun 2012
#46
Also, just to be clear, I don't find that proposed legislation to be lacking or bad.
OneTenthofOnePercent
Jun 2012
#45
Only because you are in favor of one right-wing industry lobby and not the other.
DanTex
Jun 2012
#51
The law makes it damned difficult to even legally export to a "friendly" country.
oneshooter
Jun 2012
#48