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Originally Posted by twobjshelbys

No. The manufacturer has to apply and be given a "certificate". Just saying it meets all the rules doesn't make it compliant.

While the article makes it sound like this is something new it's been going on for quite a while, sitting in a do nothing congress that was more interested in impeaching Trump multiple times than attending to operational business of how the government affects its citizens. It must be really slow for this to have bubbled to the top of their to do list.

as I understand it, the regulatory agency was holding up the works, not congress. Seems they took their time in releasing the details... like years!