Posted on 03/05/2018 9:50:00 AM PST by PROCON
The Gun Violence Prevention and Safe Communities Act of 2018 would up excise taxes on ammunition for non-government users to 50 percent, while guns would jump to 20. (Photo: DOD)
A group of House Democrats has introduced a bill that would up the taxes on firearms and ammunition to pay for research on gun violence and its prevention.
The measure, H.R.5103, was introduced last week by U.S. Rep. Danny Davis of Illinois with nine co-sponsors. It aims to increase current taxes on guns and ammunition, as well as fees associated with National Firearms Act weapons.
Under the plan, ammunition would see excise taxes increase to 50 percent and firearms to 20 percent. Currently, manufacturers pay a long-running 11 percent excise tax on sporting firearms and ammunition under the PittmanRobertson Act, which goes to fund conservation efforts such as hunter education programs, public shooting ranges and preserving wildlife habitat. The jump in fees under Davis plan would be set aside for public safety grants and research.
(Excerpt) Read more at guns.com ...
President Obama commissioned a $10 million study to look at crime deterrents in January 2013, and what it says about gun control blows everything liberals and Democrats have ever said about guns out of the water, reports CNS News. Self-defense can be an important crime deterrent, concluded a study by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Already been done:-)
Unearthed Taxpayer Funded Gun Study Ordered By Obama Blows Holes In Every Gun Control Argument
3/5/2018, 1:03:13 PM · by OregonRancher · 17 replies
DC Statesman ^ | 3/3/18 | Isabelle Weeks
President Obama commissioned a $10 million study to look at crime deterrents in January 2013
How is this any different than a poll tax? Its the government saying that if you want to exorcise your civil right you have to pay a tax.
Let make people pay big $$$ to receive a ballot and see how it turns out.
The tax should be on Democrats
for their slavery imposition
and on the criminal illegals.
Taxes to both the cities,
and the states, and the federal
gov’t would be a good start.
I had a “conversation” with a liberal on a NJ facebook page, yes I know
It was the person wanted longer waiting periods for guns
I said, well we already have 6 month waiting periods in this state, how about we make it 9 months?
Libtard: that would work, if it saves one kid’s life it would be all worth it
me: We could also make abortions 9 month waiting periods as well, just think of all the kids we could save.
libtard: head asplodes with 3 paragraph rant
Everyone else pretty joined in and said how right I was about 9 months for abortions and it would save a ton of kids. It was epic.
Libtards are fun, too bad they vote though. We should treat them like pets
Ditto!
Dear thugs . . . No!
My idea: Let’s impose a 300% tax on abortions, and use the money to fund adoption efforts. How do the corrupt thugs on the left like it when their twisted ideas are turned back on them?
no. The study’s already been done by a Dem admin., as a kind FReeper pointed out a few threads up:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3637376/posts
“Dems propose up to 50 percent tax on guns, ammo to fund”...more pork barrel spending!
I have what I consider my primary weapons, with which I stay proficient.
about 3k rounds in those calibers.
others I bring out a couple times per year...about 1K ea.
love it!! These people can’t stand valid comparisons that don’t fit their narrative. They want that to be a hate crime or illegal per se. They are bigoted beyond your wildest comprehension.
[[a bill that would up the taxes on firearms and ammunition to pay for research on gun violence and its prevention.]]
“Unearthed Taxpayer Funded Gun Study Ordered By Obama Blows Holes In Every Gun Control Argument”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3637376/posts
This country cannot be governed. The side that gets momentum over-reaches, and nothing gets done.
I propose a bill rounding up all registered democraps and putting them on an island in the Pacific.
If we could just figure out a way to tax stupidity and subsidize productivity, that would be just the opposite what’s happening now.
Good thing I stocked up before the Kenyanesian Usurpation.
OK. 50% tax on guns. 500% tax on democrappers, dead or alive.
I want a 50% tax on EVERY DOLLAR sent out of this country...by whomever. Western Union can collect it & forward it to the US Treasury.
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An outright ban on semi-automatic guns would be unconstitutional.
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And WHOM determines the taxation rate that crossed the Rubicon of ‘infringement’?? The courts, case after case after where the legislature(s)\Fedzilla play ‘keep away’ by tweaking the rate/law every 6mo.??
Was not the $200 ‘stamp’, at the time, wholly out of the realm of most Citizens? A defacto BAN?
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Ill sign-on, but only if folks who own property can vote on the proposal...
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I wouldn’t take that bet. If a thing can be taxed in perpetuity, it’s own OWNED (aka ‘property taxes’).
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