Screening Prohibited Parties As the world becomes increasingly more complicated, one might imagine that there is an official list of ...

Defense Distributed: The Final Chapter? Frequent readers of this column will note that we’ve been following the Defense Distributed case ...

Export Reform, Continued Faithful readers of this column are well aware of the ongoing efforts to modernize and streamline the ...

Europe Discovers the Virtues of Personal Self-Defense While European Politicians Seek to Disarm the Continent. Gun control pundits have long ...

The ACE Secure Data Portal – Bringing International Transactions into the 21st Century. For many years, the import/export community has ...

Defense Distributed – continued. A brief synopsis of the events thus far: January 2013: Defense Distributed, a nonprofit, gun-design digital ...

Dealing with the U.S. Government: U.S. State Department versus the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Dealing with the ...

AES – The Automated Export System As computing systems get more advanced, there are increased opportunities to automate previously mundane ...

First Amendment Rights Versus the ITAR On June 3, 2015, the U.S. State Department published a proposed rule on the ...

Recalls and Warrantees Firearms, like most mechanical items, occasionally break. Parts can fail, and barrels become worn. If the firearm ...

M855 – What’s the Big Deal? Pay any attention to American politics, and the reader will know that the ATF ...

Shipping Hazardous Materials Shipping ammunition within the United States? Easy. Slap a UPS Ground shipment label and ORM-D sticker on ...

What Is OFAC, the SDN, and Why Can’t Russian Arms Be Imported Into The U.S.? On July 17, 2014, the ...

The U.S. State Department “Eats Their Own Young:” The Basics of Mens Rea, Specific Intent, and Acting “Knowingly” American criminal ...

“May you live in interesting times…” supposedly a Chinese curse, the U.S. arms export trade is currently facing unprecedented challenges ...

Policies and regulations regarding exports are constantly changing.  With the high degree of compliance required to lawfully export firearms from ...

When buying consumer items online, particularly within the United States, the cost of shipping the item is frequently borne by ...

Those involved in the international arms trade are (or should be) intimately familiar with the International Trade in Arms Regulations, ...