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Loony House Dem proposes massive tax on AR-15 rifles that create a lucrative black market...
• https://www.naturalnews.com, by: JD HeyesUnder the phony guise of 'making America safer,' a loony House Democrat is proposing a new anti-gun measure that is almost certain to create a huge black market for the country's most popular self-defense rifle, the AR-15.
According to The Daily Wire, Rep. Donald Beyer of Virginia, who sits on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, is proposing a 1000-percent federal tax on all AR-15 purchases as a 'deterrent to mass shootings' — an absurd idea that will raise the cost of such rifles to between $5,000 and $20,000 apiece.
In an interview with Business Insider, Beyer said: "What it's intended to do is provide another creative pathway to actually make some sensible gun control happen. We think that a 1,000 percent fee on assault weapons is just the kind of restrictive measure that creates enough fiscal impact to qualify for reconciliation."
First and foremost, the models of AR-15 rifles for sale to the general public are not 'assault weapons.' They are semi-automatic rifles of a kind that have been sold in the U.S. for more than 100 years. Only in the past couple of decades beginning with the Columbine High School massacre in the late 1990s have school shootings become a 'thing.' And to be honest, in nearly every instance, the shooters are younger males with mental health issues (so that is where our resources should be going — as well as into fostering two-parent homes, personal responsibility, faith-based and human rights-based values, and other cultural and societal mores and values that the left has worked to destroy for just as long).