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What Are These “Stealth” Gun Control Bills?

Gun Talk Radio

Washington, DC --(AmmoLand.com)- By now you probably have seen one or a hundred emails warning you about SB-2099 and HR-45, supposedly “stealth” bills which will require you to list your guns on your tax return, register your guns, neuter your goldfish, and join PETA.

Okay, I made up the last two, but depending on which email you have gotten, there’s a real “Chicken Little” feel to these. So, what’s the skinny.

Forget ‘em. That’s it.

SB-2099 is easy to check out on the Snopes web site (always a good idea to use Snopes when you get an email about a story that is hard to believe.)

The short version: It’s a bill introduced in 2000, not 2009, and it didn’t go anywhere.

Fuggitaboutit.

How about HR-45? Yes, it was introduced by Bobby Rush. Yes, it is a real bill. No, it is not going anywhere. Don’t waste your time and effort and good electrons sending that email to your list of friends. Sure, there are gun rights groups using HR-45 to frighten you into giving them money. That’s their problem, and in my view it hurts their credibility.

Fuggitaboutit,

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Clearing Up the Rumors: The Truth About The ‘Gun Tax Bill’

National Rifle Association

New York, NY --(AmmoLand.com)-Over the past few months, NRA-ILA has received hundreds of e-mails warning us about “SB-2099,” a bill that would supposedly require you to report all your guns on your income tax return every April 15.

Like many rumors, there’s just a grain of truth to this one. Someone’s recycling an old alert, which wasn’t even very accurate when it was new.

There actually was a U.S. Senate bill with that number that would have taxed handguns — nine years ago. It was introduced by anti-gun Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), and it would have included handguns under the National Firearms Act’s tax and registration scheme. This has nothing to do with anyone’s Form 1040, of course.

Fortunately, S. 2099 disappeared without any action by the Senate, back when Bill Clinton was still in the White House. We reported about it back then, just as we report about new anti-gun bills every week. Now, it’s time for gun owners to drop this old distraction and focus on the real threats at hand.

To read a story by NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox on this and other rumors, please click here.

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