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BOOM BOOM
07-17-2009, 04:24 PM
Hi,
just found out about this!
Check out please
hr-45 blair holt firearms licensing & record bill
sb-2099 required disclosure of firearms on 1040 tax form bill

Blammer
07-17-2009, 05:01 PM
snope it, it's false

Doble Troble
07-17-2009, 05:17 PM
http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/blairholt.asp

The Blair Holt bill is real, and its onerous. The good news is that it has no co-sponsors and is likely to die in committee...this time.

The SB-2099 is an old rumor come back. Here's what the NRA says about it:

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.

Lead Fred
07-17-2009, 08:15 PM
New gov. Firearms bills

I liked the old govenment better, they understood "shall not be Infringed"