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Dems: Pay gun owners to hand over assault weapons
The Hill ^ | April 6, 2015 | Tim Devaney

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.).


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: 1; assaultweapons; banglist; guncontrol; rosadelauro; taxcredit
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Queen Bee Rosa has been busy lately introducing bills that will go nowhere. That's quite a rogues gallery of leftists as co-sponsors on this bill.

House Dem calls for tax on sugary drinks


1 posted on 04/06/2015 10:40:22 AM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

Oh for CH#### SAKE JUST COME AND GET THEM, IT’S WHAT YOU WANT!


2 posted on 04/06/2015 10:41:51 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: jazusamo

Bullets first


3 posted on 04/06/2015 10:42:03 AM PDT by clamper1797 (I'm a Tea Party Conservative ... in my opinion that makes me "Politically Correct")
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To: jazusamo

Take the tax break and go by a new one!


4 posted on 04/06/2015 10:42:09 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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To: jazusamo

5 posted on 04/06/2015 10:42:28 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: jazusamo

That ugly mutt could get a job scaring babies.


6 posted on 04/06/2015 10:43:07 AM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: jazusamo

Hmmm..$2,000 in tax credits? Maybe we should buy as many “assault rifles” as possible for say, $1,000, then turn them in and get $2,000 back.


7 posted on 04/06/2015 10:43:20 AM PDT by Cry if I Wanna
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“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.).”

6 Stooges.


8 posted on 04/06/2015 10:43:27 AM PDT by tgusa (gun control: hitting your target.)
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Assault weapons are not about hunting, or even self-defense,”

That's right.

They're about KILLING TYRANTS.

Think it over.

9 posted on 04/06/2015 10:45:02 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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Here’s a better idea: pay people on welfare to be sterilized.


10 posted on 04/06/2015 10:45:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: jazusamo

I thought Leonard Nimoy had died.


11 posted on 04/06/2015 10:45:49 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: jazusamo

Shouldn’t that be SAFEER?
I mean really. Say Fear?


12 posted on 04/06/2015 10:45:49 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: jazusamo

Wow... liberalism sure takes its toll, does it not?
The evil just seeps out through the skin.


13 posted on 04/06/2015 10:45:53 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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So, if I purchase an assault weapon for $500, I can get $2,000 for it from the government. Net profit: $1,500.


14 posted on 04/06/2015 10:45:57 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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15 posted on 04/06/2015 10:46:19 AM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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“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.”

"Designed for the battlefield" when? Even flintlocks were "designed for the battlefield" at one time. If she means right now, then that excludes the AR-15, which was explicitly designed for the civilian market.

16 posted on 04/06/2015 10:46:36 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: jazusamo

She knows that conservatives are the only ones actually paying their taxes


17 posted on 04/06/2015 10:46:39 AM PDT by cyclotic (Join America's premier outdoor adventure association for boys-traillifeusa.com)
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To: NorthMountain

Indeed. When the gov’t fears the people, there is freedom.

This assumes something to be afraid of.


18 posted on 04/06/2015 10:46:58 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: jazusamo

When Pigs Fly!


19 posted on 04/06/2015 10:47:19 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (A brilliantly intelligent comment sent thru an amazingly stupid spell checker)
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To: jazusamo

gun buyback, no one ever thought of that before. lol


20 posted on 04/06/2015 10:47:33 AM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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