Red Herring Gun Tax

Recently, the Washington Free Beacon and other outlets have reported on a proposal emanating from the Biden campaign/incipient administration concerning the assessment of a tax on guns owned by Americans. It is unclear whether the proposed tax would be created as a sales tax on all future firearms sales [unlikely since the broad language seems aimed at another target], an annual property tax such as is levied on homes and business property [again, unlikely], or as a one-time tax levied as the price for being allowed to retain ownership of the firearm.

Former Vice President Biden has said that he wants to ban new sales of AR-15 rifles and similar firearms as well as any ammunition magazine holding more than 10 rounds. These magazines are standard equipment on most modern rifles and handguns. The proposal seems to indicate that a Biden administration would pay some owners to surrender the affected guns they legally own and force everyone else to register the guns under the National Firearms Act. And that is, in fact, the clear purpose of the proposal. The $34 billion haul from such a firearm tax is chump change in the US Federal Budget. But access to the names, contact information, identify of the firearms, location of the firearms is, to quote MasterCard, priceless in the eyes of the Democrats. People who are fooled into accepting the idea that, by paying a one-time $200 tax they will assure themselves ownership of their guns, as promised by the Second Amendment, will one day be confronted by Beto O’Rourke and his minions with formal legal process demanding the surrender of their guns.

Ratcatcher is a keen observer of the Second Amendment proponents. We predict that, once this Biden proposal is made public and explained, a great groundswell of objection will be raised. Do not be so foolish as to believer that once the government locates the firearms it will be content to allow people to own them. Not happening.

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