Posted on 07/18/2015 10:46:33 AM PDT by rktman
Recently, the State Department announced that they intended to make some changes to ITAR regulations as part of the President’s Export Control Reform efforts. You may have heard the Internet chatter about this measure and the proposed implications of it silencing the media when it comes to posting technical information about the manufacture of weapons (firearms and ammunition.) That being said, there’s more to it when you dig a little deeper, which is exactly what I’ll be doing in this article.
(Excerpt) Read more at weapon-blog.com ...
ITAR and Export Controls are an extremely hot topic for Universities in this country right now. They are virtually paralyzed in my opinion because of it. Bureaucrats and lawyers willing to sell out any researcher if it seems in any way their University will be libel. It’s disgusting.
What I would do, with all the scare about this ITAR stuff, is simply, within a very short period of time, find any and all videos pertaining to ANY firearm that you might even consider for one minute, and take the time to download them for your own future use. You can store them in any number of ways in or out of your machine, and then you can look at them offline, at any time.
Have I done this? Yes, I have, but my ‘window of subjects of consideration’ is not that varied, so I do not require too much disk space.
I might add, with the stupendous brilliance of our federal government, you might wish to take a look through the myriad gun forums, and save ‘in printable text’, any and all subject matter that you might find applicable to your chosen ‘window of consideration’, for the same reason.
Yes, I’m doing that, too. Thank heavens for PDF creation software!
The proposed changes to ITAR regulations are certainly beyond the intent of Congress when the statue was enacted. It was intended to stop illegally transfer of military technology that would provide an adversary an advantage if they were to get their hands on our advanced weapons systems. Sporting arms, even those made to look like military arms are nothing of the sort.
Of course, the Administration’s intent is a backdoor means of imposing draconian gun control on American citizens. This is headed to the courts and the best approach is for to take an aggressive stance. Find the most favorable potential case, get money behind the effort, pick the right court, and time it with the election cycle. I don’t think that it can stand.
This is nothing more than a reaction to the 3D printed guns out there. What country doesn’t know how to manufacture it’s own firearms? None. The hysteria of the 3D printer has led to the creative use of regulation by Obamagoons. Any firearm knowledge will now be a very very serious crime. It’s just what Obama wants. Imagine you have a gun manufacturing site like cncguns.com on which you take pictures of yourself building a 1911 from scratch. Loretta Lynch and ATF goons trace an IP address that downloads your picture to Bulgaria. Uh Oh. You are now in violation of ITAR regulations and you are thrown in federal jail.
I can not stress how dangerous this ITAR regulation will be. This will criminalize knowledge. And ITAR violations are investigated rigorously.
LOL! Yeah, they can hack and steal all they want but let you forget one little thing and.........................
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