Extra taxation on guns and ammo proposed in House

[gunnutery]

This proposed bill would double taxes on gun sales from 11% and increase ammo taxes from 11% to 50%!

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/26/house-dems-seek-to-tax-gun-owners-with-new-bill/

Considering that it has little chance of passing, I wouldn't have posted this, BUT... it MAY also be a back handed attempt at keeping the ammo shortage going until it's finally defeated. That's what angers me. I can only think of a few reasons someone would introduce legislation like this when you know it's more than likely going to be defeated, and keeping ammo supply short seems to be one possible motivation.

Thoughts?

 

[Warp]

This proposed bill would double taxes on gun sales from 11% and increase ammo taxes from 11% to 50%!

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/26/house-dems-seek-to-tax-gun-owners-with-new-bill/

Considering that it has little chance of passing, I wouldn't have posted this, BUT... it MAY also be a back handed attempt at keeping the ammo shortage going until it's finally defeated. That's what angers me. I can only think of a few reasons someone would introduce legislation like this when you know it's more than likely going to be defeated, and keeping ammo supply short seems to be one possible motivation.

Thoughts?

To help get them votes come election time when they can point out that they sponsored/introduced/supported it.

 

[Adam the Gnome]

They do it so we know who NOT to vote for!

 

[Carl N. Brown]

William Pascrell, D-N.J.
Danny Davis, D-Ill.

Democrats. New Jersey. Illinois. Remember that election time.

They want to raise the federal excise tax on firearms and ammunition from 11% (used for federal wildlife conservation) to 20% on guns and 50% on ammunition (to be used to pay for gun violence in big cities whose policies -- ghettoes and gun control -- lead to increased criminal violence in the first place).

They also want to raise NFA taxes from $200 to $500 and AOWs from $5 to $100. If this is to pay for big city gun violence, why do the gun control groups talking about universal registration like to point out there is no crime with registered NFA firearms? There is no gun violence with NFA registered firearms -- which are rare collectibles anyway -- but they want to raise taxes.

In 2011, 1 of 18,000 handguns was used in a homicide.
In 2011, 1 of 255,000 longguns was used in a homicide.
But the vast majority of us law abiding gun owners need to be taxed out of our kazoos to pay for gun violence we did not commit.

 

[barnbwt]

Mainly they salivate over that grant money being lavished upon urban crime ridden cities like the ones they represent . It's not even immoral, it's just a half-hearted money grab

TCB

 

[MattShlock]

Makes perfect sense. Blame guns, ban guns. They'd rather have the cash anyway.

It's the mob -- Al Capone became an elected official and laughs all the way to the bank. Well, he sends a government paid staffer but you get the point...

Did you know Liberace coined the original phrase "crying all the way to the bank"?

 

[Trent]

I thought the same thing when I saw that news article tonight.

"Well, THIS isn't going to help the damn ammo shortage."

Every Tom, Dick, and Harry is going to be standing in line again, afraid ammo is going to go up another 50%.

And 99.9% of American gun owners doesn't know what the NFA means, all they're going to see is "any other weapon" is now going to cost an extra $100. Not understanding that the items affected by the NFA are for tax stamps for silencers, machineguns, sawed off shotguns, and other controlled items.

Zero chance of this passing.

But it shows they're clever, in what they are attacking and how they are phrasing it DOES indicate this is a blatant attempt to scare the average Joe in to buying and stockpiling even more guns and ammo.

That way they can call us all bloodthirsty hoarders building arsenals of weapons of war, and point to the average American citizen gun owner as being some self-serving Militia capable of outfitting a company or regiment of infantry.

You know what? Some of us can.

Keep pushing us.

 

[Midwest]

They are discussing it here too

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=726757

 

[Al Thompson]

As Midwest points out, this is already running in Legal.