The text of the proposal, introduced last week in the U.S. House as H.R.4283, is not publicly available, but the sponsor’s office says it will increase the long-standing Pittman-Robertson Act excise tax by “just half a percent and apply the federal excise firearms tax to assault-weapon frames and receivers, which currently are not taxed if sold separately.” [More]
That’s the one the Fudds and the industry all sing the glories of, seemingly oblivious to what cancer cells can do when they start to metastasize.
[Via Jess]
“and apply the federal excise firearms tax to assault-weapon frames and receivers”
How can you even pretend to know that, if you can’t define what is an “assault weapon?”