So they said, no guns would be

[Baloo]

113th Congress H.R. 226.

H.R.226 - Support Assault Firearms Elimination and Reduction for our Streets Act - Bill Text | Congress.gov | Library of Congress

 

[reesez]

who do i contact to write

 

[cosermann]

The sponsor is a Democrat from CT. Big surprise.
Referred to House Ways and Means Committee chaired by Dave Camp, Republican from Michigan.

 

[ArmedProgrammer]

From a quick read - it's a $2000 a pop "assault" gun buyback - except you get it as a tax credit. $1000 a year.

Should be titled "The Newtown Intellectual Masturbation and Grandstanding Act" if you ask me...

And I thought that the mayor of New Albany was an idiot for their buyback....

 

[reesez]

started writing. this is gonna take forever lol

 

[Baloo]

Tax Credit, no such thing. They are just giving you back some of your own money which was rightfully yours before they took it with the threat of force. Anyone else do the same they would be charged with Armed Robbery.

 

[johnny45]

I am still marveling at those who claimed "Hussein will not take your guns... in fact, gun rights have expanded under his presidency'.....

 

[Hoosier8]

All I can say is start buying Hipoint carbines to turn in.

 

[ghuns]

So I can pay myself $2000 to give the government my AR? Hooray, where do I sign up?

 

[johnny45]

Sounds like a trap to me.

Whom would I have to assault with a rifle before I qualified for the credit?

 

[87iroc]

Maybe they'd accept the receipt from the purchase and a rough GPS location of where everyone lost theirs in the blizzard of 2012?

 

[reesez]

Maybe they'd accept the receipt from the purchase and a rough GPS location of where everyone lost theirs in the blizzard of 2012?

mine were stolen yesterday.......

 

[upalot]

As long as this asshat comes to get them in person.

 

[singlestacksig]

All I can say is start buying Hipoint carbines to turn in.

yeah, if they want to buy back guns and pay us a nice profit.. sure ...

 

[Baditude]

They pay me $1,000 for my Hi Point carbine? sure, I will go swim in the river where I was float testing it

 

[roisigns]

Does a Ruger 10/22 qualify?

 

[AlphaSig112]

This is nothing different than the buy backs that already happen all over the country. The difference is it is federal and you get more of my money. If someone is going to sell back their rifle they should just skip the government and sell them to the taxpayers who want them anyway. I like the legally obtained part myself. So not about taking illegal weapons just legal ones. DUH.

 

[SSGSAD]

Does a Ruger 10/22 qualify?

JMHO, but not YET... By reading this, we are going to lose pump action shotguns, I didn't know they were "assualt rifles".....

 

[Water63]

Does a Ruger 10/22 qualify?

(D) A semiautomatic rifle that has an ability to
accept a detachable magazine, and that has--
``(i) a folding or telescoping stock,
``(ii) a threaded barrel,
``(iii) a pistol grip,
``(iv) a forward grip, or
``(v) a barrel shroud.
I would say it might if it had any of this on it.

Looks like they are just outlining a buy back program my concern is the part about double dipping. Look to me they will only give credit for 1 gun doesn't matter how many you turn in. And it sunsets 2 years after passage.

`(3) Denial of double benefit.--The taxpayer may elect the
application of this section with respect to only 1 weapon, and
if such election is made for any taxable year, no deduction
shall be allowed under any other provision of this chapter with
respect to the surrender or contribution of the specified
assault weapon.

 

[jamil]

Related definitions.--

(A) Barrel shroud.--
The term `barrel shroud' means a shroud that is attached to, or partially or completely encircles, the barrel of a firearm so that the shroud protects the user of the firearm from heat generated by the barrel, but does not include a slide that encloses the barrel, and does not include an extension of the stock along the bottom of the barrel which does not encircle or substantially encircle the barrel.

Wow. I thought a barrel shroud was the shoulder thing that goes up.

(D) A semiautomatic rifle that has an ability to
accept a detachable magazine, and that has--
``(i) a folding or telescoping stock,
``(ii) a threaded barrel,
``(iii) a pistol grip,
``(iv) a forward grip, or
``(v) a barrel shroud.

So we must give tax breaks to people who turn in such weapons, to rid the streets of these dangerous weapons that combine heat shields with detachable mags? Who writes this stuff?