USML Category I Firearm Suppressors (ITAR)

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

2026-07-23 — Implementation of EAR Export Controls on Silencers, Mufflers, and Sound Suppressors; and Other Firearms Related Changes: cross-connection with ear-export-controls-sound-suppressors: The BIS EAR final rule is the Commerce-side counterpart to the State Department ITAR amendment removing suppressors from USML Category I; together they complete the jurisdictional transfer. (novelty: 3)
2026-07-23 — International Traffic in Arms Regulations: USML Category I Firearm Suppressors: State Department interim final rule removes firearm silencers, mufflers, and sound suppressors for non-automatic and semi-automatic firearms from USML Category I, transferring their export-control jurisdiction off ITAR (implementing a 2025 EO on foreign defense sales reform). (novelty: 3)