1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Americas Regional Monitoring of Arms Sales Act of 2023 or the ARMAS Act of 2023 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Violence in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean is exacerbated by firearms originating in the United States. (2) While firearms are trafficked to Mexico from a variety of countries, firearms originating in the United States account for 70 percent of the firearms recovered and traced from crimes in Mexico, according to the 2021 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report published by the Comptroller General of the United States titled Firearms Trafficking: U.S. Efforts to Disrupt Gun Smuggling into Mexico Would Benefit from Additional Data and Analysis . (3) United States-origin firearm flows contribute to human rights violations, organized crime and gang violence, extrajudicial killings, high homicide rates, domestic violence, and femicides in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. (4) Firearms trafficking from the United States and firearm violence are key drivers of immigration and asylum claims from Central America. (5) According to the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, firearms are used in 70 percent of homicides in the Caribbean compared to 30 percent globally, and while the Caribbean constitutes less than one percent of the global population, it is responsible for 23 percent of all recorded homicides. (6) In an August 2022 press conference, United States officials of Homeland Security Investigations reported a marked uptick in the number of weapons , and an increase in the caliber and type of weapons, being illegally trafficked to Haiti and the rest of the Caribbean. (7) The Caribbean Basin Security Initiative of the Department of State that commenced in 2009 is the regional foreign assistance program of the United States that seeks to reduce illicit trafficking in the Caribbean region and advance public safety and security. The program includes