U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Â On 20 August 2021, the U.S. Department of State released a fact sheet announcing Russian firearms and ammunition importation will be banned for a minimum of 12 months starting 7 September 2021. From state.gov:
New sanctions imposed today under the CBW Act include:
- Restrictions on the permanent imports of certain Russian firearms. New and pending permit applications for the permanent importation of firearms and ammunition manufactured or located in Russia will be subject to a policy of denial.
The ban is listed as a sanction pursuant to the Chemical and Biological Weapons (CBW) Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991, over the supposed Russian use of the “Novichok” chemical agent to poison Aleksey Navainy.
Navainy was poisoned in August of 2020. He has been critical of the Putin regime in Russia. This is the second round of sanctions imposed on Russia by the United States over the Aleksey Navainy incident. The first round of sanctions did not ban the importation of Russian ammunition or firearms.
The Department of State announcement says “New and pending permit applications” … “will be subject to a policy of denial”. The implication is applications that have already been approved will not be revoked.
If that is correct, shipments of ammunition and firearms from Russia which have already been approved will be allowed to enter the United States and be sold.
It is unclear how long supplies in the pipeline will last.
The announcement is likely to rekindle the ammunition bubble for calibers commonly imported from Russia, such as 7.62×54, 7.62×39, 5.45×39, 5.56×45, and even match grade .22 ammunition.
About Dean Weingarten:
Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973. He taught the Arizona concealed carry course for fifteen years until the goal of Constitutional Carry was attained. He has degrees in meteorology and mining engineering, and retired from the Department of Defense after a 30 year career in Army Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation.
Biden leaves attack aircraft, helicopters, machine guns, Barrett sniper rifles, explosives, tanks, artillery, trucks and MASSIVE ammo stocks, $800,000,000,000 worth, to the muslim terrorists.
SIMULTANEOUSLY, rat Biden BANS importation of Russian firearms and ammo for American citizens.
Remember when you did not go door to door canvassing for Trump votes?
How many of you did not vote for Trump?
How many of you did not vote?
You get the country you refuse to defend and support.
This makes no sense by Biden and company, if he wants to hurt Russia then why did he okay the oil pipeline to Europe to happen, that would hurt them more on making money than firearms and ammo coming to the U.S..
He needs to be worried about China and what they are doing to control the world.
We have the wrong person sitting in the oval office.
While restricting Russian firearms he managed to GIVE thousands of M-16 & MP5s to the Taliban, as well as tanks, artillery, Blackhawk helicopters, etc, to the Taliban — at no cost.
Ok, so from what I saw in the law it prohibits the US from exporting weapons to the offending country, ok, makes total sense. The only things I found about imports were bans on specific named people, and this: (D) IMPORT RESTRICTIONS- Restrictions shall be imposed on the importation into the United States of articles (which may include petroleum or any petroleum product) that are the growth, product, or manufacture of that country. Nowhere does it say that that can be split, or specific industries targeted. The way I read it, this should be a total ban of imports from Russia, which would… Read more »