U.S. Representative Mark Green Introduces Stop the BIS RULE Act to Safeguard Small Businesses, Gun Rights – Clarksville Online [Video]

Washington, D.C. – During Small Business Week,  Representative Mark Green introduced the Stop the Bureaucratic Ineptitude Shuttering Respectable and Upstanding Lawful Exporters Act (Stop the BIS RULE Act). 

The legislation comes after the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) instituted a 90-day pause, which lasted for over 180 days, on the issuance of new export licenses involving certain firearms, related components, and ammunition. 

Representative Green said, “If BIS doesn’t change course, Americans will continue to lose their livelihoods while enriching black market gun dealers. From the small businesses that sell firearms, ammunition, and components, to the manufacturers and shippers that make and deliver them, the rule will only further devastate businesses harmed by the pause. Making these changes permanent only weakens the rights of law-abiding citizens while giving criminal actors a monopoly of force.

This rule further demonstrates the Biden administration’s antipathy for the Second Amendment. The last …