Congressman from Ill. has introduced H.R. 5103. It attacks guns and gun owners through higher taxes. Increases NFA fees from $200 to $500 and automatically adjusts fees for inflation annually.
Also increases Federal Excise Tax to 20% on all guns manufactured in the US. Drastically increases taxes on imports and ammo.
This is old news. The bill was introduced on February 27, and its title is the
Gun Violence Prevention and Safe Communities Act of 2018.
Also, it's been referred to
five different committees and one subcommittee...the Committee on Ways and Means, the Committees on Natural Resources, the Judiciary, Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, and the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
It'll sit in
each one of those committees for a period of time to be determined by the Speaker.
Each committee will meet and discuss the bill regarding how it might affect each of their spheres of influence, then they'll pass it along to some other committee. This is commonly known as Passing the Buck. And make no mistake, each committee member will be innundated with letters and petitions (and other stuff that we won't talk about here) from an untold number of lobbyists.
Frankly, I'll be surprised if it sees the light of day again during the remainder of the 115th Congress. Then again, it has nine more months, so who knows what'll happen between now and January 3, 2019.
What we
don't need right now is to start getting all bent out of shape and panicking over a bill that has little, if any, chance of making it to the president's desk and signed into law.
