New Executive Orders are certainly a bad move, but really nothing has changed No doubt people have heard about the recently signed Executive Orders on importing firearms. Before anyone jumps the gun and starts thinking they are going to corner the market on Mosin Nagents or something, realize that this applies to a very small number of rifles that were already unable to be imported. These orders effect rifles that were manufactured in the US and exported to other countries. It makes it illegal to re-import them. It has nothing to do with rifles made outside the country. What this is about is a bunch of M-1 Garand and Carbines sitting in Korea. They were exported to the Korean Government, and have been sitting in warehouses. The Koreans want to sell these to collectors and the CMP. But federal law says the State Department must give permission for the re-importing of firearms that have been exported to a foreign government, and they have withheld this permission for some time now. So all this EO does is make it official permanently, instead of still possible pending State Dept approval. Yes, we should all hate them for doing this. But honestly, it hasn't changed a thing. They are just screwing us a different way now.

A new Facebook post via South Texas Armory New Executive Orders are certainly a bad move, but really nothing has changed No doubt people have heard about the recently signed Executive Orders on importing firearms. Before anyone jumps the gun and starts thinking they are going to corner the market on Mosin Nagents or something, realize that this applies to a very small number of rifles that were already unable to be imported. These orders effect rifles that were manufactured in the US and exported to other countries. It makes it illegal to re-import them. It has nothing to do with rifles made outside the country. What this is about is a bunch of M-1 Garand and Carbines sitting in Korea. They were exported to the Korean Government, and have been sitting in warehouses. The Koreans want to sell these to collectors and the CMP. But federal law says the State Department must give permission for the re-importing of firearms that have been exported to a foreign government, and they have withheld this permission for some time now. So all this EO does is make it official permanently, instead of still possible pending State Dept approval. Yes, we should all hate them for doing this. But honestly, it hasn't changed a thing. They are just screwing us a different way now.