Several gun owners (some overseas) have alerted me to Senate Bill 2099 (SB-2099). It appears to be an IRS addition to a 1986 tax law. Concern is that this is a backdoor method of taxing all guns and requiring that they be listed on your annual income tax filing. Additionally, each gunowner will be required to pass a mental health qualifying test. This will be an end run around congress and become part of the IRS regulation and only had to be passed by the Senate Appropriations Committee. Has any heard of this issue. Fact or fiction???
Gun Control Act of 2009
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Andy Griffith
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This has been making the email/internet rounds for a long time- nothing to worry about.
cmort666
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Urban legend, deader than Joe Biden's last lonely brain cell.
Bullseye 2620
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Here's what the NRA put out on this last year:
Clearing Up the Rumors: The Truth About The "Gun Tax Bill"
Friday, May 29, 2009
In the last few weeks, 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.
Life is good. Don't worry, be happy.
Bullseye
Clearing Up the Rumors: The Truth About The "Gun Tax Bill"
Friday, May 29, 2009
In the last few weeks, 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.
Life is good. Don't worry, be happy.
Bullseye
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