{"id":145465,"date":"2023-08-06T10:29:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T14:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=145465"},"modified":"2023-08-06T10:29:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T14:29:29","slug":"are-you-prepared-to-pay-a-1000-excise-tax-when-you-purchase-a-firearm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=145465","title":{"rendered":"Are you prepared to pay a 1,000% excise tax when you purchase a firearm?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If a group of House Democrats get their way, taxes on the sale of certain categories of firearms will jump up. These democrats believe that the price shock would discourage gun purchase. Representative Don Beyer, Virginia Democrat, introduced this legislation. He appeared to be among the group of Democrats who tried to introduce a similar bill in Congress last year, but it did not gain traction.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

More than two dozen House Democrats put forward legislation Friday that would slap “assault weapons” and high-capacity magazines with a 1,000% excise tax, a change that would raise the price of a $500 weapon to $5,000 in a bid to reduce access to guns across the country.<\/p>\n

Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., and 24 other House Democrats introduced the legislation Friday. It’s the second time Democrats have put forward the idea.<\/p>\n

Beyer and 37 Democrats proposed the same idea last year when Democrats controlled the House, but it never moved.<\/p>\n

The text of Beyer’s new bill was not out as of the weekend, and it was unclear if any changes were made from his 2022 version. His bill from last year imposed the tax on any magazine or related device that can accept more than 10 rounds of ammunition.<\/p>\n

The same 1,000% tax would be imposed on any “semiautomatic assault weapon,” which last year’s bill defined as a semiautomatic rifle or pistol with a fixed magazine of 10 rounds or more or that have other various features.<\/p>\n

Under that rule, a weapon that normally costs $2,000 would force customers to pay more than $20,000, a change Beyer argued last year could help “curb the epidemic of gun violence.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News provides the balance of the story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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