"stimulus" info?

[Mason]

while out shopping for ammo and groceries today I overheard a cop and a saleman talking about a 15% additional tax on all guns and ammunition as part of the funding for this bill/law..... any truth to it?

[capt341]

I heard the same thing. The tax was imbedded in the stimulus plan so nobody knew about it.

[kfd82]

Havent heard anything about it, but I'm glad I bought my gun last week!

[Jaspro]

Not finding anything on that yet. Google is working hard for me though. Did find this pretty disturbing.

http://www.infowars.com/%E2%80%9Cpork%E2%80%9D-bailout-bill-could-ban-guns-for-millions-of-americans/

[RobinHood]

I heard the same thing. The tax was imbedded in the stimulus plan so nobody knew about it.

Yeah, it's in the "steal-from-us" plan.

[Froggy]

Not finding anything on that yet. Google is working hard for me though. Did find this pretty disturbing.

http://www.infowars.com/%E2%80%9Cpor...-of-americans/

Everbody should read this link. Scares the heck out of me. What's happening to our country?

I served as a combat vet in Nam. Don't sleep well and am a law abiding citizen. Now I can't purchase a gun???

[holepuncher]

I also heard the government was going to make all the automakers stop building cars next month, and that we would be riding around in wagons. i guess I better go buy me a couple before next month, and while I'm at it, I think I'll pick me up a couple mules and a wagon before the price goes up. I could be wrong but if that were a fact and seeing as how it has been voted in by both houses and waiting for a signature, don't you think that would at least warrant a 30 second segment on the 5:00 news? And where is the NRA? Rumors just to justify price increases and get the public to pay the price they want.

[samsdad]

Search here:

http://readthestimulus.org/index.php?doc=amdth1&page=1

I searched for ammunition .. Nothing
Tax.. Lots of stuff but nothing about a tax on ammo.

Sounds like another scare rumor. Imagine that.

[pickles]

Search here:

http://readthestimulus.org/index.php?doc=amdth1&page=1

I searched for ammunition .. Nothing
Tax.. Lots of stuff but nothing about a tax on ammo.

Sounds like another scare rumor. Imagine that.

X2

The cop should read it. There is funding in it for extra resources for police officers, firefighters, etc. As well as salary increases.

[bowhuntingw]

found this on the nra site.

http://www.nraila.org/legislation/read.aspx?id=4430

[Bill]

Here's what's on the NRA ILA web site

Rumors and the Economic Stimulus Bill

Friday, February 13, 2009


We have been hearing many rumors, and receiving many inquiries, about "buried" provisions in the federal economic stimulus bill that would negatively affect our Second Amendment rights. People have claimed the bill would designate interstate highways as national parks, or impose ammunition encoding and new ammunition taxes. Fortunately, and contrary to what you may have heard, there are no provisions in this bill prohibiting firearms or ammunition anywhere, or for anyone.

The only reference in the bill to firearms is a provision authorizing funds for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' (BATFE) "Project Gunrunner," which is a program that enforces existing laws to reduce smuggling of firearms from the United States to Mexico. This program imposes no new restrictions on gun owners, and if it did, we can assure you we would take swift action.

Needless to say, NRA, as a single-issue organization, takes no position on the economic stimulus legislation as a whole.

For more information and to view the legislation yourself, you can visit http://www.readthestimulus.org/. The site features a convenient search function and covers every version of the legislation.

[Mike D]

found this on the nra site.

http://www.nraila.org/legislation/read.aspx?id=4430

Good to know. Thanks for the link.

[rwesttx]

Lots of people want us to think that prices will sky rocket to help them keep the prices artificially high like they are currently. Many people bought a 10 year supply of ammo and guns so I am anticipating a vacume in sales for the remainder of the year resulting in extremely low prices..... that is unless they do make some legislation. I think they would have a tough time passing anything right this minute considering the economy, health care, the wars, deflation and other pressing issues. The whole country is in the crapper. I feel like the thing that no one wants to talk about is we can't just keep throwing billions down the black hole(s) and expect anything different to happen. We are going to have to change some things in a big way.

Just my 2 cents

[tank]

The speaker .gov link has links to the different parts of the bill. the appropriations bills have all the money numbers in them.

http://www.house.gov/billtext/hr1_legtext_crb.pdf

http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?p=1694