Dems: Pay gun owners to hand over assault weapons

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It never ends. From The Hill:

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.).

Not that this will pass, but if it did, that would be a sweet return on cheap AR. Buy a Core15 or Del Ton or any other $500 AR you would make $1500 turning it in. The Dems would be subsidizing guns owners! That’s some irony for you.

http://thehill.com/regulation/legislation/237983-dems-would-pay-gun-owners-to-turn-in-assault-rifles

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Democrats are so incredibly stupid, and so desperate for a gun control win, that they are writing bills that gun owners would actually benefit from.

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Where does one even begin to cover the level of fail here? It is a great indicator of just how disconnected may politicians are from both reality in general, and what most voters actually want.

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So, I can get a $2,000 tax credit? I can use that to buy two 6920’s. Good deal!

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Could you turn in just a lower?

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What’s it take to qualify for the full $2k? Could be a good way to pick up a few bucks for shooting more.

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Sometimes the stupid hurts incredibly bad.

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How is it we have money for this and how is this a proper function of the Federal Government?

Someone needs to take out a full page ad, in the largest newspaper, in each of the Sponsor & Co-Sponsors States, thanking the voters in those States for their wonderful contribution to our Nation.

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This is a great idea, as my PD would then hand it back to me!

That is not how tax credits work. The $2000 would be a deduction of your income. If you are in the 28% tax bracket (only 5% are), you would save $560. Most folks would see a savings of $400 or less.

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Most of us could probably turn our spare parts into a cheap (read <$500.00), no-frills AR, and then turn around and add very little cash for a KAC SR-15. I love it! Joking aside, this bill will not become law.

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I read tax credit, not deduction…

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If you like your tax credit, you can keep your tax credit.

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Well this is stupid.

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Me too. Deduction = bogus. Credit? Hell yeah, make that shit refundable while you’re at it!

I know it says “up to” a $2,000 tax credit.

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I wonder if the boost to the economy from increased firearms sales would off-set the revenue lost to the government through this program.

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Oh the joy… walking into the local IRS office with some pos AR asking for my $2K credit…
Just the thought makes me all giddy…“…SUM’ ONE DUN’ TELL ME AH’S GON’ GIT 2 LARGE FO’ THIS HERE RIG…NOW GIMME MY MONEY BITCHES”…!..

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Let’s see… Agency self-identifies as a SAFER Site. For a nominal fee, say $50 or so, it accepts an evil assault weapon from citizens, recording owner ID information. Owner claims the tax credit and pockets a few hundred bucks. After the local disposition process, preferably a non-evidentiary “safe keeping” hold, agency turns the gun over to a partner gun shop that is also a SAFER Site. For a nominal fee, say $50 or so, the shop transfers the evil assault weapon to the original surrendering citizen.

Money for the local government.
Money for the citizen.
Money for the shop.
SAFER program bled of money.

Sounds like a plan.

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They dropped the ball with the naming of the program. Should have went for gold and made “SAFEST” work… Losers…

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Yeah, they dropped the ball on the name for sure. Should have been Silly Twaddle from Unscrupulous Political Idiot Democrats’ Act. Or something like that…

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Those most likely to commit crimes with so-called assault weapons probably don’t file tax returns anyway.