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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
you obviously are assuming facts not in evidence. I have to ask though, what problem needs to be addressed when straw buying is being encouraged by the very agency meant to stop it?
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Straw purchasing did not begin in 09 when F&F was implemented, nor will it cease now that the operation has been halted.
One has to be a blind ideologue to infer that the problem of illegal trafficking is solely a F&F issue.
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stretching it is using the agency website that's being investigated to prove your point.
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As opposed to innuendo and NRA talking points. F&F was an operation of the AZ field office. Where is the evidence that ARRA funding was provided to support it in any manner rather than to establish new field offices in CA and TX.
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the act requires licenses for any export NOT related to government use.
It authorizes the President to define defense articles and regulate their export. In so doing, he must consider the possibility that export could "support international terrorism, increase the possibility of outbreak or escalation of conflict..."
Those defense articles may not be exported without a permit, issued by the Secretary of State ( Department of State guidelines here), "except that no license shall be required for exports or imports made by or for an agency of the United States Government
(A) for official use by a department or agency of the United States Government, or
(B) for carrying out any foreign assistance or sales program authorized by law and subject to the control of the President by other means."
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The act addresses the sale of weapons and transfer of technologies to governments (and other quasi-governmental organizations).
Please point to the specific section of the law under which straw purchasing (or one-to-one transfers by individuals) is a prosecutable offense.
Or at the very least, just point to an ATF official or DoJ official who states that such acts are covered by the law.