Trump Rescinds Export Restrictions on Guns Imposed by Biden Regime

The second Trump administration has reversed the burdensome restrictions on the export of firearms and accessories imposed by the Biden administration in April 2024.

During the first Trump administration, the regulatory burden on the export of firearms and accessories was significantly reduced. Much of this was done by transferring the application for export process from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Department of State to the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). The BIS issued regulations to comply with the change.

On April 30, 2024, during the Biden administration, the BIS published an interim final rule. The interim final rule required new export license requirements on firearms, ammunition, and components. These restrictions were estimated to cost American manufacturers hundreds of millions of dollars in lost sales.

On September 30, 2025, the BIS in the second Trump administration issued a final rule that restored the regulatory scheme to that of the first Trump administration, effectively rescinding all the firearms export changes made by the Biden administration. The only change that was not rescinded was the change made in the administrative numbering system.

Good. I fully support this. I just wished that when Biden was in office, they had made lists of:

Everybody Biden hired for anything

Every executive order Biden made

Everybody prosecuted by the Biden regime

Everybody fired by the Biden regime

Every policy enacted by the Biden regime

And CHOKE SLAMMED Every single last thing Biden did into 180 degree reverse on day one. If Biden prosecuted them, pardon them immediately AND compensate them for any losses suffered. If Biden fired them, rehire them AND compensate them for back pay. If Biden issued an executive order for anything reverse it....don't care if that meant issuing 800 executive orders on day one. Massive Massive purges of the FBI, DOJ, Military, IRS, and various other federal agencies. Get rid of all the leftists. DON'T CARE if that means canning 100,000 in the military for example. DON'T CARE if that means 3/4s of the DOJ gets pink slips. DON'T CARE if that means 90% of the FBI finds itself out of a job. What we needed was an all out blitzkrieg against the administrative state.

By the way, Gun shops put out of business but the ATF? Put them back in business, fire most of the ATF AND compensate them for their losses the proceeds to come out of the ATFs budget. If that means there are $0 left over to pay anyone at the ATF for several years....tough crap. Do it.

By The Associated Press
October 6, 2025 2:53 am
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Police in Western Australia have seized guns and revoked or suspended firearms permits from dozens of owners linked to what investigators describe as sovereign citizen ideologies, or views that reject government authority.

Officials linked the crackdown on firearms users believed to hold such views to the fatal shooting in August of two police officers in Victoria state, in the country’s east. The suspect in those killings, 56-year-old Dezi Freeman, remains at large, weeks after he is said to have killed two officers visiting his rural property to serve a search warrant.

In the years before the shooting, Freeman appeared to have embraced so-called sovereign citizen views during court appearances. Members of such movements use debunked legal theories to reject government authority.

Gun owners had their permits canceled over their views
Freeman is suspected of killing Detective Senior Constable Neal Thompson and Senior Constable Vadim de Waart-Hottart and wounding a third officer. Following the shooting, investigators in Western Australia used bolstered gun laws enacted in 2024 to identify weapons owners in their state who they said held similar views to Freeman’s.

“The mission of this operation was simple and that was to validate and verify our intelligence on who may hold sovereign citizen ideologies here in Western Australia,” the state’s Police Commissioner Col Blanch told reporters on Sunday. Social media posts and information from other gun owners was used to identify those targeted.

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Officers visited 70 properties over five days in late September and early October, seizing 135 firearms and suspending or revoking 44 gun licenses, Blanch said. Investigators relied on a legal provision that allows only someone who meets the standard of a “fit and proper person” to hold a gun permit.

“If you have made it very clear that you do not abide by the laws of Western Australia, set by the Parliament, then there is no way that you can be a fit and proper person,” Blanch
In explaining the raids, Blanch said that in the past three years, six police officers in four states have been shot dead by members of the public, which he said was “unprecedented” in Australia.

In 2022, two officers were shot and killed by Christian extremists at a rural property in Queensland state. The three shooters in that case — conspiracy theorists who reportedly hated the police — were shot and killed by officers after a six-hour siege in the region of Wieambilla.

A South Australia police officer was shot dead in 2023. Another was killed in Tasmania in June.

Shooting deaths in Australia are otherwise rare. A 1996 massacre in the Tasmanian town of Port Arthur, where a lone gunman killed 35 people, prompted the government to drastically tighten gun laws and made it much more difficult for Australians to acquire firearms.

When Western Australia’s tighter gun laws were enacted last June, the state’s government boasted that they were the strongest in the country. The changes included limiting the number of guns someone can own to 10 for most people.

Six weeks later, the search for the Victoria police killer goes on
Meanwhile, in rural Victoria, Australia’s largest ever tactical police operation continues the search for Freeman. Hundreds of officers have traversed rugged landscapes, squeezed into caves and checked mine shafts, with no confirmed sightings of the fugitive so far.

The Aug. 26 killings happened when 10 armed police officers tried to execute a search warrant at Freeman’s property in Porepunkah, a town of just over 1,000 people located 320 kilometers (200 miles) northeast of the city of Melbourne.

The suspect, Freeman, fled alone, on foot and heavily armed, into dense surrounding forest. He is experienced in wilderness survival skills, officials said.

Victoria’s Police Commissioner Mike Bush did not offer a reason for the search of Freeman’s property at the time, but he told reporters that attending officers included members of a unit that investigates sexual offenses and child abuse.

Australian news outlets widely reported that Freeman espoused sovereign citizen beliefs, citing a 2021 video taken in Wangaratta Magistrate’s Court and published online in which he can be seen attempting unsuccessfully to arrest a magistrate and police officers during a hearing.

In a 2024 finding from Victoria’s Supreme Court, where Freeman tried to challenge a lengthy suspension of his drivers’ license, a judge wrote the man had “a history of unpleasant encounters with police officers” whom he referred to in his submissions to the court as “Nazis” and “terrorist thugs.”

https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/australia-sovereign-citizen-guns-dezi-freeman-c99648

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