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Two Democratic members of Congress are pressing the Commerce Department for detailed data on U.S. exports of semi-automatic weapons, citing concerns that \u200blegally exported American firearms are fueling criminal violence and arming cartels \u200cacross the Western Hemisphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reuters reviewed the letter sent on Sunday by Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Representative Gregory Meeks of New York to Under Secretary of Commerce Jeffrey Kessler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warren and \u200bMeeks, the top Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee and House Foreign \u200bAffairs Committee, respectively, invoked their oversight authority under the Export Control \u2060Reform Act of 2018 to demand a sweeping accounting of semi-automatic firearm export \u200blicenses approved since January 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The request covers semi-automatic rifles, pistols, shotguns and associated accessories, \u200band asks the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security to disclose the number of licenses approved, the countries receiving the exports, the types of purchasers cleared to receive them, and \u200bdetails of any monitoring conducted to prevent diversion into illegal markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The letter requested \u200ba response and a full briefing to the committees by April 13.
The lawmakers cited data from \u200cthe \u2060Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives showing that legal U.S. firearm exports account for nearly 20% of crime gun traces in Central America and more than 37% globally outside of North America.
The letter is the latest move by Warren to \u200bscrutinize the flow of \u200bU.S.-made weapons into \u2060criminal hands.
Warren in early March introduced legislation to stop an Army-owned ammunition plant in Missouri from selling military-grade bullets to civilians, \u200basserting that some rounds have been diverted to Mexican drug \u200bcartels and \u2060used in more than a dozen American mass shootings.
In 2023 the Commerce Department paused export licensing of most civilian firearms and ammunition for months to assess the “risk of firearms \u2060being diverted \u200bto entities or activities that promote re<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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