Taxes and GUNS!!!

[KevinL]

I am not much on writing but I hope I can get my point across.
I have been hearing about a new bill on guns and taxes.
I was just told that the feds have snuck in a bill that each of us have to list and pay a $50. tax on each gun we own!

I think I will sell all my guns to a frend do my taxes then perchas them back the day after thay are filed.
Then never file a fed tax return again
Talk about getting into state bisness
I cant stand what is happaning to our country
Brings a new meaning to from my cold dead hands

Kevin

 

[15Tango]

This rumor needs to go away.

Directly off the NRA website, http://www.nraila.org/legislation/federal/read.aspx?id=4925

Clearing Up the Rumors: The Truth About The “Gun Tax Bill”

Friday, May 29, 2009

In the last few weeks, NRA-ILA has received hundreds of e-mails warning us about “SB-2099,” a bill that would supposedly require you to report all your guns on your income tax return every April 15.

Like many rumors, there’s just a grain of truth to this one. Someone’s recycling an old alert, which wasn’t even very accurate when it was new.

There actually was a U.S. Senate bill with that number that would have taxed handguns—nine years ago. It was introduced by anti-gun Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), and it would have included handguns under the National Firearms Act’s tax and registration scheme. This has nothing to do with anyone’s Form 1040, of course.

Fortunately, S. 2099 disappeared without any action by the Senate, back when Bill Clinton was still in the White House. We reported about it back then, just as we report about new anti-gun bills every week. Now, it’s time for gun owners to drop this old distraction and focus on the real threats at hand.

Wayne