A gun pledge Biden can easily keep Jeff Abramson, opinion contributor © Getty Images A gun pledge Biden can easily keep
In his 2019 gun violence prevention policy platform then-presidential candidate Joe Biden pledged to ensure that the authority for firearms exports stays with the State Department, and if needed, reverse a proposed rule by President Trump.
Today, March 9, marks one year since Trump put that proposed rule into effect. Now-President Biden can and should reverse it.
At one level, the Trump policy change was a bureaucratic shuffling of authority among executive departments - an easy thing for Biden to undo. More fundamentally, it has risked weakening human rights scrutiny and careful oversight of firearms exports, likely making it easier for human rights abusers, criminal gangs and terrorists to get their hands on U.S.-supplied weapons.
A gun pledge Biden can easily keep
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By Yucatan Times on December 10, 2020
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Mexican marines escort five alleged drug traffickers of the Zeta drug cartel in front of an RPG-7 rocket launcher, hand grenades, firearms, cocaine and military uniforms seized to alleged members of the Zetas drug traffickers cartel and presented to press on June 9, 2011 at the Navy Secretaryship in Mexico City. Fiven men were arrested and more than two hundred rifles, eleven pistols, military uniforms, differents caliber ammunitions and more than 200 kg of cocaine were seized in the Coahuila and Nuevo Leon States by the Navy. AFP PHOTO/ Yuri CORTEZ (Photo by YURI CORTEZ / AFP)
As Mexico’s relentless militarization continues to whet appetites: in the last decade, the United Kingdom increased its arms export licenses and included Mexico in its list of “priority countries for arms exports”.