House Lawmakers Propose 1,000 Percent Tax on AR-15s

Epoch Times ^ | 6-17-22 | Jack Phillips

[dynachrome]

The measure would place exemptions on recreational weapons used for hunting as well as ammunition. The law would not retroactively apply to tens of millions of AR-15s that are estimated to be circulating around the United States.

In an attempt to define what would be taxed, the bill says it would apply to “semiautomatic assault weapon[s],” which are semiautomatic rifles that have the capacity to use a magazine that isn’t a fixed magazine, a pistol grip, a forward grip, and a folding, telescoping, or detachable stock. Other items that fall under that definition include a semiautomatic rifle with a barrel shroud, a threaded barrel, and a “functional grenade launcher.”

[Gaffer]

I guess this makes the two that I want to sell much more valuable......

[Big Red Badger]

Used to get a Hershey bar
For a Nickle,
A Nickle!
.
Seinfeld

[ocrp1982]

“When this whole thing came out last week there was a gunshop owner that said he’d sell the AR for 1 cent. The 1000% tax makes it $10. Then all purchasers are required to buy a Snickers bar for $990.”
You’ve just got to admire the ingenuity average American small business owner. As President Trump stated repeatedly, the Leftists and RINOs call themselves the “elite” but, WE are the Elite. No matter how hard they try to destroy our country WE always, eventually, find a way to defeat their plans.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

All of the rhetoric about AR-15s tells me the government KNOWS the people absolutely hate them. They are then very afraid there is going to be a revolution, so they have to figure out a way to keep guns out of the hands of the mob and/or confiscate them and they need to do it quickly. The momentum towards that is really moving fast.

Their concern is very real. They must set up the playing field where the opposition is severly outgunned by the authorities. That is the complete basis for all of this, not random mass shootings.

[Lurkinanloomin]

That’s what the Obamacare tax was and John Roberts said it was fine.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I view it the same as a poll tax and just as unconstitutional.

[absalom01]

These people have dropped all pretense of seriousness, and are merely pandering to their emotionally motivated base.

They are openly in pursuit of raw, naked power, and should be treated as such, not a fellow citizens with a good faith disagreement.

No more “compromises”. Larry Pratt was right in the 90s, compromise is just a slow death.

[absalom01]

These people have dropped all pretense of seriousness, and are merely pandering to their emotionally motivated base.

They are openly in pursuit of raw, naked power, and should be treated as such, not a fellow citizens with a good faith disagreement.

No more “compromises”. Larry Pratt was right in the 90s, compromise is just a slow death.

[Blood of Tyrants]

1000% is ten times the sales price. A $1000 AR would cost $11,000.

[Political Junkie Too]

You have that backwards. Obamacare supporters argued it wasn't a tax, and Roberts said it was.

-PJ

[Lurkinanloomin]

Roberts said a tax meant to punish was just fine.

[Carriage Hill]

They’re paying the cartels to bring-in that poison.

[Political Junkie Too]

Did he say that explicitly, or did he twist it to mean that the tax paid for the underprivileged to get coverage?

I know what you mean, and you know what I mean, so there is no point in jousting over this.

-PJ

[HighSierra5]

You Aholes wanna war? You’re gonna get it!

[voicereason]

What about chainsaw bayonets?

I just keep a titanium spork on the end of mine.

[Noumenon]

What about my personal favorite, the under barrel chupacabra launcher?

[gundog]

[Noumenon]

Hey shitlib dems - how about an upraised digitus impudicus and a hearty GFY.

[Big Red Badger]

George and a TwixBar,,,
Jump, JUMP!

[gundog]