Regulatory Basics

Technical Data
Sharing

 Listed below are some examples of sharing technical data.

• Formal dinner at an embassy and the embassy worker next to you wants to discuss the specifications of a new weapon they read about on the Internet.
• Informal discussion with a foreign co-worker in which you demonstrate how to clear your firearm.
• Providing a Foreign National with a copy of a brochure you picked up at a gun show in the U.S.
• Posting pictures or details of a mission on the Internet — even your personal site (such as Facebook).
• Telling stories about what you did as a formal military operative.
• Sketching a picture of how something works or looks inside.

It is easy to get carried away in discussions with another person. Sharing and trading stories and details on how you did things in a previous job, showing pictures you may have taken on a military base, or talking about the best method you have discovered for handling your weapon may all be considered technical data (or a defense service) and cause not only your organization, but you personally to violation export regulations.