Posted on 04/30/2015 12:32:05 PM PDT by richardb72
Gun control advocates introduced a bill in April that only gun control supporters could love. Connecticut Democrat Rep. Rosa DeLauro is so serious about getting so-called assault weapons off the street that she is offering $2,000 tax credits for each gun that people turning in limit one per year.
According to her, assault weapons are not about hunting, or even self-defense. 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.
She believes that offering $2,000 a gun will ensure guns will be turned in. She is correct that people would turn in guns, that is old, non-working guns or guns bought cheaply and then make a profit turning them in. After all, many brand new assault weapons sell for less than $700.
Gaming the gun buyback system has pretty much become standard fare these days. There are also plenty of stories featuring people buying BB guns from a nearby Walmart and turning them in.
A better name for the "Support Assault Firearm Elimination and Education of our (SAFER) Streets Act would be the "Full Employment Act for Gun Makers." . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Console yourself with this; Stan Greenberg has had to see Rosa DeLauro naked.
I have two 3d printers and could really use the extra cash ... so PLEASE pass this.
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Tax credits: Pretend money that can disappear in a wink. And then just try to get the gun back.
Congressional promises: Ask the Sioux.
Make that welfare for ex-gun-owners. But, sorry, it’s not even as tangible as welfare; it’s a promise from a member of congress sitting with the most dishonest and corrupt party in history. The question soon becomes, how many of the guns will Rosa sell and use the proceeds to establish the Rosa de Lauro Foundation? Gotta love those dem foundations.
“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.”
That's something that every politician and would be tyrant should keep first and foremost in their outlook. That is precisely why I own such weapons and that is precisely why I will not register them, surrender them, or submit to their confiscation.
Wow. Just wow. And not wow in a good way.
Someone’s missing their broom...
WHY, WHY, WHY?????? If you wish to post such a photo, please include a “graphic, disturbing, gruesome or hideous content” warning!!!!!!! ;)
i just thought of something..
buy an old beat up does not work .22 for about 25 bucks..
get out your trusty old 1/2 horsepower grinder and grind a big old slot in the bottom of it..
find an old unusable 30 round magazine, beat it into the slot with a hammer, then caulk and tape it in place..
take your barely functioning “assault rifle” in and get your 2000 bucks!!!!!
To quote the 2012 presidential candidate for the GOP, 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 guess that is why they want them all in the hands of the government!
This bill is saying turn in your valuable rifle and we the government might not take as much of your money at tax time but we are not going to give you a damn thing.
Just read the full article. They are saying credit but I would need to see the fine print on that, my bet is you would receive a slip of paper aging you can deduct 2k from your income. Don’t forget, they lie!!
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