White House Highlights Efforts to Limit Illegal Gun Exports
The U.S. wants to expand investigations into illegal firearms trafficking and better hold traffickers accountable as part of an effort to curb illegal gun exports to Mexico, the White House said in a fact sheet this week. As part of…
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that effort, DOJ is using new criminal authorities in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, enacted last year, which makes it a federal crime to “act as straw purchaser of firearms intended for unlawful use.” The White House also stressed the importance of CBP’s anti-smuggling operations at ports of entry along the southwest border, including its “numerous robust outbound operations.” ICE and Homeland Security Investigations have seized nearly 1,000 guns and gun parts and more than 125,000 rounds of ammunition so far this fiscal year.