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Dem Reps Sponsor Bill for 20 Percent Tax on Handguns
Breitbart ^ | 08/26/2013 | Awr Hawkins

Posted on 08/26/2013 7:41:53 AM PDT by Rusty0604

Representative Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.) and Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) are sponsoring legislation which amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include a 20 percent tax on handguns--"pistols [and] revolvers"--as well as a 50 percent tax on "shells and cartridges." The bill is H.R. 3018 and it is titled the "Gun Violence Prevention and Safe Communities Act of 2013."

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; secondamendment
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To: Rusty0604

“Shall not be infringed” means nothing anymore.


61 posted on 08/26/2013 10:05:43 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again,")
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To: Paine in the Neck

According to the DHS training manual, and I believe to common core taught to our children, those people were terrorists.


62 posted on 08/26/2013 10:15:23 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604
According to the DHS training manual, and I believe to common core taught to our children, those people were terrorists.

I'm pretty sure their targets - the British authorities and and their Loyalist henchmen - thought so too.

63 posted on 08/26/2013 10:34:55 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Is John's moustache long enough YET?)
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To: Rusty0604

Didn’t the late....and not so great....New York Senator Daniel Moynihan proposed a 10,000% tax on ammo a number of years ago when this fool “served” in the U.S. Senate? I think it was during the Clinton years.


64 posted on 08/26/2013 11:26:07 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be a chain of convenience stores.)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

He must have been a “all or nothing at all” type of guy.


65 posted on 08/26/2013 11:33:07 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

Oh, I know but if 20-40 million taxpayers did this it might kill the beast. But then I’m an awfully serious optimist.


66 posted on 08/26/2013 2:15:30 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: Rusty0604
Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.)

GREEDY ROTTEN BASTARD
67 posted on 08/26/2013 5:37:01 PM PDT by novemberslady (Texas For President)
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To: reaganaut

Well, I’ve got the stocking up part down pretty good. Several thousand rounds worth.


68 posted on 08/29/2013 7:13:20 PM PDT by 4mer Liberal
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