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.).
She should go back to Vulcan
” $200,000 revenue on $10,000 cost. Hell of a margin.”
Better n drug dealer margins!
“I saw a movie once where only the police and military had guns. It was called Schindler’s List....”
Bump!
MS. Frankenstein.
If this passes I plan on making a killing printing rifles and selling them to the ‘gubbermint’!
But But...
I thought they would have, by now, knocked on those 30,000 doors and hauled away, as felons, all those gun owners that didn’t turn in their guns as demanded a couple years ago.
What happened there? (sarq)
Do they really think they will now race to grab the money and run? (I suspicion those guns that do get turned in for cash may be, for the most, purloined...)
$2,000 tax break?
So, take $2,000 off you taxable income - and how much doesn’t that save? Not a whole heckava lot - and if you don’t have O-Care, - they’ll grab it against your ‘fine’.
How clever.
++ Though DeLauro is in favor of stronger guns laws that would completely ban assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition ++
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I want to be the first in line to buy a lot of that there ‘high-capacity ammunition’. Is that like cluster munitions or something ? It’s remarkable how pols with no idea what a gun or its ammunition works spout absolute drivel like this.
That’s one Duckly Ugh.
Looks like a before-her/his time tranny?
There are all sorts of Assault weapons. Will I be paid if I turn in a tire chain or a baseball bat?
Too bad the Republicans won’t pass this. It’s written about as intelligently as all the Dems gun citizen disarmament stuff ever is, so it would be really easy to make some money slapping together junk guns to sell to people who want the tax break.
NO.
It means you get to claim $2,000 of your taxable income. That won't add to much in a tax return...that will then become seize-able by the gub'mint if you ain't got O-Care.
Clever little beoches - eh wot?
“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.”
Pray tell...who uttered this?
FMCDH(BITS)
It’s probably just one per person though. Maybe every FReeper could do it and donate 10% of the profit to the site. lol
Other than, you know, if we are suddenly on a battlefield... and given the militarization of the police, the federal bureaus, and the anti-American in the White House trying to raise private armies ("Civilian Defense Forces")... which probably do not have my best interests at heart... it isn't unrealistic to imagine the possibilities.
But at the end of the day, it is about RIGHTS... it is not called the Bill of NEEDS. Fully automatic weapons are VERY fun to play with at an outdoor gun range, and military-style weapons are fun for those who enjoyed carrying them and relying on them and training with them when they were in the military. We have the Freedom, we have the uninfringed Right, and we have the desire (for fun). These weapon are almost NEVER used in robberies or murders, so the drive to ban them does little or nothing for public safety... but surely goes a long way towards helping the security of any future potential tyrants. No thanks, no deal.
(Most crime involving military-style weapons are possession violations, not property or personal assault violations. Get rid of the possession laws, and these arms are virtually NEVER associated with criminal actions... outside of Hollywood, which owns over 80 percent of all privately-held fully-automatic weapons.)
And is that a decoder ring on her pointer? ahahaha - Looks more tranny than ever.
That would be Mr Romney. “Our” 2012 Candidate. Ahem.
Who would be dumb enough to let the IRS have a record of the fact they are gun owners?
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