Lawmaker Subpoenas Documents on Commerce’s Firearms Export Pause
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said Feb. 15 that he has issued a subpoena to the Commerce Department for documents relating to the Bureau of Industry and Security’s recent 90-day pause in issuing new commercial firearms export licenses.
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"I urge you to cooperate speedily and in good faith with this subpoena," Comer wrote in a letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
Comer said Commerce’s response to his November document request (see 2311290041) failed to include internal documents and communications that would explain the decision-making that led to the pause.
A Commerce spokesperson said in a statement that “we have received the subpoena and are committed to cooperating with the committee’s inquiry.”
The pause expired in late January. BIS recently drafted and sent for interagency review an interim final rule to revise its gun export licensing requirements (see 2402070013).