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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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To: jazusamo
Rep. Rosa DeLauro

These people are insane.

Send them to a psych ward, and get them off the taxpayer funded payroll.

21 posted on 04/06/2015 10:48:19 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: US_MilitaryRules

exactly

How much is a new AR-15?


22 posted on 04/06/2015 10:48:19 AM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Identical twins? LOL!


23 posted on 04/06/2015 10:48:34 AM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: jazusamo

It is simply stunning how stupid voters can be when they elect people like this.


24 posted on 04/06/2015 10:49:06 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: clamper1797

LOL, there you go.


25 posted on 04/06/2015 10:49:13 AM PDT by Obadiah (Israel had King Manasseh, America has Obama.)
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To: jazusamo
“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.”

I knew that sounded familiar.

Here is the 2012 Republican Presidential nominee.

“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.”

26 posted on 04/06/2015 10:49:19 AM PDT by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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To: MrB

She is a looker on her planet, especially for a 3,000 year old


27 posted on 04/06/2015 10:49:23 AM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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To: jazusamo
This is the communists Democrats working towards disarming as many of Americans as they can for their takeover of America as a communists dictatorship. There is no doubt that they are using King Obama, the communists black Muslim, to get the insurrection started so he may claim a third term. The pattern is clear and the communists Democrats have building their army for years.
28 posted on 04/06/2015 10:50:28 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: US_MilitaryRules

Yeah, depending on the language of the legislation, I could enthusiastically support this. Could possibly get $2,000 for a 10/22, depending on how it’s written! lol

$2k for a used base build factory AR15 would be a great deal.


29 posted on 04/06/2015 10:50:29 AM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: jazusamo
Assault weapons are not about hunting

Neither is the Second Amendment.

30 posted on 04/06/2015 10:50:44 AM PDT by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: jazusamo

Dums: Gay pun owners to overhand old ass weapons

Lydexics Untie!


31 posted on 04/06/2015 10:52:00 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Support Principle: http://www.tedcruz.org)
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To: jazusamo

Why would anyone do that when they could sell them for more? Rosa is almost as stupid as she is ugly.


32 posted on 04/06/2015 10:52:22 AM PDT by clintonh8r (ISIS IS ISlam/Christian lives matter!)
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To: SkyPilot

She should turn in her assault-ring.


33 posted on 04/06/2015 10:52:53 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Support Principle: http://www.tedcruz.org)
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To: tgusa

Note that the Islamic wants to disarm Americans.
Wonder why...(ha ha)....?


34 posted on 04/06/2015 10:53:38 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (A brilliantly intelligent comment sent thru an amazingly stupid spell checker)
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To: jazusamo
“There is no reason on earth,... that anyone needs a gun designed for a battlefield.”

Don't the libs argue that the second amendment only applies to flintlock muskets as used during the revolution? A musket was "a gun designed for the battlefield". Thus they say that people not allowed to own weapons designed for the battlefield, but at the same time that is the only type of weapon allowed. Cognitive dissonance, they name is liberalism.

35 posted on 04/06/2015 10:53:56 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
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To: jazusamo
“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.”

Precisely. It's called deterrence and preparation.

36 posted on 04/06/2015 10:54:19 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: Cry if I Wanna

I think I could make my old bolt-action .22 squirrel rifle look AWFUL MEAN for $2000!


37 posted on 04/06/2015 10:54:41 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: aomagrat

“Neither is the Second Amendment.”

Amen...Worth repeating.


38 posted on 04/06/2015 10:54:54 AM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: jazusamo
“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.”

So, like - why do the police need assault rifles, then?

39 posted on 04/06/2015 10:55:37 AM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: BenLurkin

Here’s a better idea: pay people on welfare to be sterilized.

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That would save SO much money, in SO many ways.


40 posted on 04/06/2015 10:56:48 AM PDT by Qiviut ( One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. ~W.E. Johns)
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