Posted on 04/06/2015 10:40:22 AM PDT by jazusamo
Gun owners would receive tax breaks for voluntarily turning in high-powered assault rifles under new legislation proposed Monday.
The Support Assault Firearm Elimination and Education of our (SAFER) Streets Act expected to be reintroduced next week by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) would provide gun owners with an incentive to turn in their firearms to local police departments.
“Assault weapons are not about hunting, or even self-defense,” DeLauro said . “There is no reason on earth, other than to kill as many people as possible in as short a time as possible, that anyone needs a gun designed for a battlefield.”
Though DeLauro is in favor of stronger guns laws that would completely ban assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition, she emphasized this bill would not force gun owners to turn in their firearms.
The legislation would provide up to $2,000 in tax credits for gun owners who voluntarily hand over assault weapons to their local police departments.
The assault weapons legislation comes in response to the horrific mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., DeLauro’s home state, in December 2012.
DeLauro originally introduced the bill in January 2013, just one month after the Newtown shooting, but the legislation fell short in the Republican-controlled House. She plans to reintroduce it next week when Congress returns from recess.
She said the bill would help “get more assault weapons off the streets."
“Just days after the Newtown tragedy, President Obama asked, ‘Are we doing enough to protect our children?’ And he admitted the answer is, ‘no.’ That must change,” DeLauro said.
DeLauro is announcing the assault weapons legislation this week in conjunction with National Public Health Week.
The co-sponsors include Reps. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.), Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), and David Cicilline (D-R.I.).
Looks like the exact choices she made at 6 years old when rifling through her grammy’s costume jewelry drawer and playing dress-up. I guess she failed to grow up in many facets of life.
She has worn those since she was 12 probably
But it's not really a cash return. It's a tax credit So if you owe the government say $3000 to begin with, AFTER you turn in your gun, you'll only owe them an additional $1,000.
Then why does every cop car in America have an AR-15?
Rosa DeLauro proves once again that in her case, ugliness is not just skin-deep...
It says only one per person, it’s pretty specific about that, but all your friends and neighbors would need a trash gun to get their tax break too.
Folks, folks, folks! It's not $2,000 DOLLARS - it's $2,000 TAX CREDIT off your income level. That won't add up to much.
Otherwise, people would be stealing and/or running out and buying them at $500 a pop and selling for $1,500 profit.
Folks, folks, folks! It's not $2,000 DOLLARS - it's $2,000 TAX CREDIT off your income level. That won't add up to much.
Otherwise, people would be stealing and/or running out and buying them at $500 a pop and selling for $1,500 profit.
The 2012 Republican Presidential nominee.
Mitt Romney.
“These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.”
I'm going for profit margin. I'm buying 80% receivers at $100 each, in bulk. I can easily turn out one assault weapon per hour, since a 100% receiver is an "assault weapon", and I won't care about quality. At the end of a week, I should be able to buy a nice-quality arsenal for every neighbor worth arming, plus a generous supply of ammo.
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What you’ve described is a “tax deduction”. A “tax credit” reduces the taxes you owe by that amount. e.g. Turn in your utility rifle and you would only owe $10,000 in taxes rather than $12,000.
Last time I checked, an assault rifle—which is a Class 3 weapon—sells for HELL of a lot more money than a paltry two thousand. Freaking brain-dead retards in Congress...
LOL.
The first thing I thought about when I read this is that the law of unintended consequences will be a real b*tch for Dems.
They do something intended to get weapons out of private hands. Instead they end up providing government financing for massive upgrades to personal arsenals, nation-wide.
She looks like Keith Richards’ ugly brother.
I guess the time to discuss this is when the average citizen can get their hands on an assault weapon.
I have a bastardized, neutered AR 15 that is a sad cousin to the M16 Assault weapon.
They cannot possibly be thinking of THAT as an assault weapon.
Democrats are evil and relentless. Their only redeeming feature is that they are stupid. I pray that their lack of foresight will give decent people time to get organized.
You can get a SW M&P15 Sport for like, $600.
High-capacity ammunition?
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