My brother mentioned he’d ordered a new stock for his M1A; he was just waiting for the ATF to approve his import permit.
His what?
Sure enough:
Grumble gnash jackbooted grumble WHY?
Seriously, in this age of just ordering shit from wherever over the internet, I just assumed innocent parts like a rifle stock could be bought, sold, and shipped just like the Japanese DVD I received from a Thai broker the other day. Buying things from overseas, without necessarily intending to, is just normal nowadays for a lot of folks. Commerce is so smooth it’s easy to ignore the seller’s location, who cares? Hell, I’m so bad with Amazon nowadays I’ll occasionally use the “Buy Now With One Click” feature and be surprised when the book I ordered shows up from England. “Oh that’s why it took three days to arrive instead of the usual two.”
My brother did note that he’ll probably end up on some sort of list. Ah well, aren’t we all nowadays?
Some likely more than others.
Weapon parts imports have required a Form 6 ever since congress passed ITAR, decades ago. When traveling with a weapon abroad, you need to get a slip of paper from the local US Customs business office as proof that you are not importing it when you return to the US.
It’s been this way for years. Ordering any weapon related stuff from Canada is a PITA.
Good morning, David.
Dayum. Guess I need to reread that portion of Unintended Consequences.
Huh. I do not remember that disclaimer being on their site a few years back… Thought about getting one, but it was not overly compatible with a SOCOM II. Guess I should have, although ignorance is no excuse of the law Kristophr mentions…
Ayup, as KB pointed out, this isn’t actually the ATF, or the Canadian .govs fault; it’s the UN, specifically AECA/ITAR/USML/DDTC issues.
Even the idiotic interpretation of those regulations isn’t the ATF’s fault… In fact, it’s a gigantic hassle for them in some ways, and they’ve actually argued for simplification of some things. It’s the state department and DOD that make things so difficult here.
Has there been any point since the Civil War when the State Dept was on our side?