In practice, this proposal means your local gun club Internet bulletin board is about to become regulated as if it were crates of missiles being smuggled onto a freighter destined for the Islamic State. It’s an international security control being sweepingly modified to comprehensively crack down on domestic speech of freedom loving Americans.
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This means that if you’re caught exporting 20 third-generation night vision optic devices, you could face a sentence of 400 years, depending on prosecutorial inclination towards you. Similarly, if you post a YouTube video of how to break down and reassemble your Glock and that video is then viewed 20 times overseas, you, your ISP and YouTube will all face huge legal liability when the Department of State comes to call. A single post may be read hundreds or thousands of times and each view may be a separate offense.
The high penalties associated with ITAR violations are used by prosecutors to push people to plead guilty in exchange for reduced sentences. California’s noted anti-gun State Senator Leland Yee, who recently pled guilty to charges of racketeering, is facing a possible 20 year sentence and potentially $250,000 in fines as a result of his plea bargain. In stark contrast, had Yee been convicted of moving the 100 Tavor rifles he was indicted for, the ITAR-prescribed punishments alone could have yielded him a 2000 year sentence, and 100 million in fines.