Last week, the White House announced that it would stop approving new permits to import Russian-made firearms as well as ammunition. The ban, which is part of a new round of sanctions against the Russian government over its alleged poisoning and imprisoning of dissident Aleksey Navalny, is set to go into effect on Sept. 7, 2021.
“Pursuant to the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 (the CBW Act), the United States will impose a second round of sanctions on the Russian Federation over its use of a ‘Novichok’ nerve agent in the August 2020 poisoning of Russian opposition figure Aleksey Navalny,” that U.S. Department of State explained in a fact sheet.
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I remember 1993, when Clinton banned the import of Chinese ammo.
Not long after the news media was thrilled to report of several train car loads of ammo being confiscated! We had several nights of viedos showing the train cars!
Then someone looked at the head case stamps. WOOPS! It was then legal Russian ammo. They had to give it all back to the importers. The news media was silent on that.
“Pursuant to the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 (the CBW Act), the United States will impose a second round of sanctions on the Russian Federation over its use of a ‘Novichok’ nerve agent in the August 2020 poisoning of Russian opposition figure Aleksey Navalny,” that U.S. Department of State explained in a fact sheet.
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I remember 1993, when Clinton banned the import of Chinese ammo.
Not long after the news media was thrilled to report of several train car loads of ammo being confiscated! We had several nights of viedos showing the train cars!
Then someone looked at the head case stamps. WOOPS! It was then legal Russian ammo. They had to give it all back to the importers. The news media was silent on that.