“Nothing would have to be reported if ther was no tax on an item for anyone and the government is not involved.”
If the government is giving a subsidy using any method, they are involved and they will know who got the subsidy.
It just so happened, I “had” to buy a car (too much money to fix the one I had and it was 16 years old) during the cash for clunkers program and that car fit that profile, so I used that. There was a raft of federal government papers to fill out and these papers went to the federal government. It will be the same with a subsidy for a safe - they will know you got that safe and know you have guns.
I can see a reason for a safe if you have many guns and keep one or two ready to use outside the safe. However, the government will know you have that safe.
The subsidy would be blind, NO TAX on gun safes. In my mind it wouldn’t be a subsidy at all, NO polltax, NO tax on firearms ammunition or gunsafes. just like a cash sale now on ammunition only NO TAX. The biggest flaw in this is that it makes too much sense and it is too simple. We could complicate it by limiting the NO TAX to American made products but trade agreements in place wouldn’t allow that.
Unless I filled my subsidized safe with gold and silver.
Would that be fraud to use my gooberment-subsidized gun safe for precious metals, important documents and family photos? lol