Trump administration wants to make changes which could ease controls on firearms exports

The 1976 Arms Export Control Act gives the president the authority to control the flow of weapons out of U.S. borders.

The State Department is responsible for developing the United States Munitions List, designating which weapons are considered"defense articles" under the 1976 law. Such articles need to be approved by the department before they can be exported.

According to an interim report prepared by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, over 540,000 firearms were exported from the United States in 2018. And yet the state department working group described this proposal as being"in the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States" because it would help facilitate"license-free trade" with allied partners.

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