The US stops selling guns! Except, no, it does piss all of the sort, really:
The US has stopped issuing export licenses for most civilian firearms and ammunition for 90 days for all non-governmental users, the commerce department said on Friday, citing national security and foreign policy interests.
The commerce department did not provide further details for the pause, which also includes shotguns and optical sights, but said an urgent review will assess the “risk of firearms being diverted to entities or activities that promote regional instability, violate human rights, or fuel criminal activities”. […]
Export licenses for Ukraine and Israel, as well as some other close allies, will be exempted from the temporary halt in exports.
I mean, obviously, cos you wouldn’t want the regional instability or violations of human rights we’re still witnessing in Gaza right now to be impeded in any way whatsoever, would you. (And no, pogroms aren’t the solution to that situation either.) As for firearms being diverted to Bad People for Bad Things, eh, those people will just get their guns elsewhere, it’s not like the US has a monopoly on weapons… this won’t make a damn bit of difference, and it certainly solves nothing at home and more of this will just keep happening. Still, it’s nice to know they’re still thinking of Ukraine, given how the discourse seems to have forgotten that‘s still a thing…
