Bill would pay gun owners to hand over assault weapons

[VScott]

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.

http://thehill.com/regulation/legislation/237983-dems-would-pay-gun-owners-to-turn-in-assault-rifles?utm_source=www.ccdl.us

Seriously, how doe's anyone with any hint of intelligence or education even come up with something like this, let alone get
elected to public office?

And it's not even the first time...

On 14 January 2013, she introduced a bill allowing for the voluntary surrender of assault-type weapons with compensation to come in the form of tax credits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_DeLauro

[gejohnston]

1. get a cheap shit rifle

flip it with the IRS. Meanwhile, the PD puts it up for auction to FFLs, or use it for a throw down for bad shoots. Meanwhile, she feels like she done something worthwhile. Almost everyone wins.

[VScott]

2. Tapco is churning out AR lowers now.

Now there's a return on my investment I could live with.

[Puha Ekapi]

3. What criminal...

...is dumb enough to turn in an unregistered AW for a
freaking tax break?

[davidsilver]

4. Yes indeed. She's well meaning but hasn't thought things through very well.

[Optical.Catalyst]

5. The purpose of the program is not to disarm criminals

The purpose of the program is to disarm law abiding citizens who actually pay their taxes.

[ileus]

9. That's the purpose of all gun control.

[NaturalHigh]

18. Exactly.

If "gun control" actually meant enforcing current laws to keep criminals from getting guns, I could easily get behind that. It has morphed into a monster, though, where elitist politicians and celebrity spokespeople demand that "Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them all in," while they are protected by their armed bodyguards. As usual, the 1% wants one set of rules for themselves and another for the less "enlightened." Unfortunately, they've gotten a great many of those less enlightened to agree with them.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

6. This program is on point

It targets people who own guns, pay taxes and obey the law. It rewards them.
(Criminals, not so much.)

Maybe some legislator somewhere will come up with a program to give folks a tax credit for giving up their armed body guards and personal security detail.

[ileus]

7. Do they have any idea what an assault weapon is and the value of these firearms.

Unless they're willing to shell out 5-55k I doubt they'll even get one real "assault" firearm.

[ileus]

8. What exactly is high-capacity ammunition? the 50 BMG holds a lot of powder does that count?

[benEzra]

11. It's the stuff you put in the 30-magazine clip

to enable you to use the shoulder thing that goes up.

[ileus]

12. Oh the clipizine bullet ghost holder thingy.

Whatever happened to the if you don't know what you're saying keep your mouth shut rule. I'd be embarrassed to have my name tagged to something like this unless I believed my voters were total idiots also.

[benEzra]

10. What about small-caliber non-assault rifles

like AR-15's?



Just one more example of just how badly the "assault weapon" fraud of the late 1980s derailed the gun control movement. Rifles are the least misused of all weapons in the United States.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/tables/20tabledatadecpdf

[Puha Ekapi]

13. Another version of the article...

http://www.middletownpress.com/general-news/20130131/delauro-urges-residents-to-turn-in-assault-style-rifles-at-middletown-press-conference-2

State police Spokesman Paul Vance, on hand for the press conference, said rifles in Connecticut designated as "assault weapons" are based on cosmetic features. Vance said features such as an adjustable stock, a flash suppressor, a pistol grip, a detachable magazine and a bayonet lug render a rifle an "assault weapon."

Asked what makes the AR-15 rifle any more dangerous or lethal than a semi-automatic .223 with a wooden stock and without the assault weapon features, Vance said it is a matter of state law.

In other words, it's dangerous because we say it is, so shut the fuck up and don't ask stupid questions.

[Eleanors38]

14. Hmm. I wonder if my 110 yr-old Winchester "ought three" .22 qualifies.

[friendly_iconoclast]

15. More stupid from DeLauro in that article:

"And they have been disproportionately used to kill law enforcement officers in the line of duty," she said. "They have no place on the streets or in our homes."

[beevul]

16. Where does this shit come from?

Sigh.

[DonP]

17. Their nether regions, supported by a know nothing press corps ...

... that won't ask any embarrassing questions.

Sound like he's a graduate of the "everybody knows that" school of debate with a graduate degree from the college of "it just stands to reason".

[friendly_iconoclast]

19. Better known as 'Colonism', as described by the late, great, Sir Terry Pratchett:

"Sergeant Colon had had a broad education. He’d been to the School of My Dad Always Said, the College of It Stands to Reason, and was now a post-graduate student at the University of What Some Bloke In the Pub Told Me." - Terry Pratchett, Jingo

[luismoreno]

20. Hey I'm new here

And I agree with your views on guns, I just wanted to know there is a group called the Socialist Rifle Association. You guys should leave them a like on Facebook!

[Matrosov]

21. Frustrating ignorance

This obsession with assault rifles is like trying to pump water out of a boat using a spoon. Getting rid of assault rifles would have a negligible impact on the tens out thousands of gun crimes and gun deaths each year. The overwhelming majority of those involve handguns.

I really wish Democratic politicians and voters would learn a thing or two about guns. The average street criminal isn't running around with Kalashnikovs, with drum magazines, .50 Barrett rifles, or anything like that. They're assaulting, raping, and murdering people with handguns.