The first, the Firearm Industry Fairness Act, mandates a new 20 percent tax on total revenue of firearm manufacturers who make MSRs, or the AR-15-style semiautomatic rifles she erroneously calls “assault weapons” … The second bill, the Firearm Industry Crime and Trafficking Accountability Act, would make it a requirement that every firearm manufacturer create a tracking database system that allows them to track crimes committed with guns they have sold. [More]
Here’s the takeaway:
The bill has no chance of becoming law.
The evil old rhymes-with-blunt doesn’t care whose rights she tramples on as long as it gets her power over others.
[Via Jess]
As bad as they are, the problem we face isn’t the Maloneys and the Nadlers.
The problem we face is the mental midgets who repeatedly send them back to Mordor on the Potomac.
And NY/NYC have just solidified the socialist grip on the state’s political landscape in their primaries. Sensible candidates need not apply, abortion and gun confiscation trump kitchen table concerns about the economy, wars and rumors of wars, and outright corruption from the wards on up.
Two slimeballs slug it out, will result in no net change on the Hill.