Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital the "Biden administration has gone to extreme lengths to criminalize law-abiding gun owners." (Getty Images)
That regulation goes into effect Thursday and was highlighted in Williams's resolution, which said BIS "has restricted the fundamental Second Amendment right enumerated in the Bill of Rights by implementing policies that limit commercial firearm exports without providing adequate reasoning to why such a prohibition is necessary."
In an April press release, the DOC said the changes were "intended to reduce the risk of legally exported firearms and related items being diverted or misused to fuel regional instability, drug trafficking, human rights violations, political violence, and other activities that undermine U.S. national security and foreign policy interests."
The DOC issued a pause on nearly all gun exports in October, claiming it needed to assess the "risk of firearms being diverted to entities or activities that promote regional instability, violate human rights, or fuel criminal activities."
That pause will be lifted Thursday when the new rule goes into effect. In addition to the new rule, the DOC said "BIS will revoke currently valid licenses that authorize exports of firearms to non-government end users in the destinations identified by the State Department" on July 1.
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With its text cited in the resolution, the Second Amendment states, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
"Our founding fathers envisioned a country where every citizen has the right to protect themselves, their property and their family. The Biden administration has gone to extreme lengths to criminalize law-abiding gun owners, ignoring Congress, and using federal agencies like the DOJ and ATF to abuse the rule-making process," Williams told Fox News Digital. "I am proud to reaffirm my strong support for the Second Amendment and condemn Biden’s unconstitutional attack on law-abiding gun owners and buyers."
Additionally, the resolution calls out President Biden for signing "multiple Executive orders directing federal agencies to act far outside the scope of their constitutional and statutory authority to dramatically expand restrictions on the lawful purchase and possession of firearms by ordinary civilians."
Customers view guns on display at a gun shop in Los Angeles Dec. 19, 2012. (Reuters/Gene Blevins/File Photo)
"The Biden administration has heaved on nearly every government lever to attack the industry that provides the means to exercise our Second Amendment rights," Keane added. "The strong and principled stand by these members of Congress, led by Representative Roger Williams, in keeping with our American traditions protecting those freedoms from an overreaching government that shows flagrant disregard for the rights of ‘We, the People.'"
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Last week, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, led 22 other Senate Republicans in calling on the Biden administration to withdraw what they considered to be the "deeply misguided rule and its associated license revocations."
Co-sponsors of Williams's measure include Reps. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.; Byron Donalds, R-Fla.; Diana Harshbarger, R-Tenn.; Richard Hudson, R-N.C.; Randy Weber, R-Texas; and Lauren Boebert, R-Colo.
Kyle Morris covers politics for Fox News. Story tips can be sent via email and on X: @RealKyleMorris.
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