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I'm not trying to be a dick, but this is exactly the wrong attitude to take. Can you please give me one good reason to support $200 tax on a transaction that the government has no business in?
We pay federal taxes (among others) on every gallon gas we buy, which presumably goes back to support construction and repair of highways and roadways. Okay, I can live with that.
But a 20-40% tax ($200) on a suppressor? What is the purpose of that tax other than to be restrictive and burdensome on the buyer? Same with the tax on an SBR.
That suppressor is a commodity, sold by a company, that employs workers. The materials purchased to make it are taxed. The employee salaries are taxed. The income produced from the sale to the retail store are taxed, and the income to the retail seller is taxed. And I am NOT including any relevant state sales tax, I am talking about federal corporate and income taxes collected.
So as the buyer, you pay a state retail sales tax AND a federal tax? It is complete bull crap, and We The People should not put up with it.
Last edited by BuzzinSATX; 01-22-17 at 19:49.
Why not just a last minute amendment to the HPA that tacks on removing SBRs or just a simple repeal of the sporting clause? We have a better chance at that since that's already moving.
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I'm not so sure that's correct. In 2015, the ATF processed 1,426,211 NFA firearms (which x200 is where I believe you got your figure). However in that same year the ATF only processed 308,563 NFA forms (which amounts to $61,712,600 and happens to be much closer to numbers I've been quoted in the past when looking into this).
The important thing to keep in mind is that while $62 million is a lot of money to the lowly US citizen, it is a drop in the bucket compared to the total budget of the DOJ as a whole (FY 2015 discretionary budget of $27.4 BILLION) which is where your tax stamp money goes. Even $285 million seems small compared to those numbers. This is why I don't like the "Uncle Sam will never repeal unlawful restrictions because they'll lose too much money" argument. This is also without considering what it costs the DOJ to keep the NFA Branch of the ATF running, which is likely a lot more than common sense should dictate.
I think pushing for a more streamlined process should be the first step. Trump is all about efficiency so that's something we could get him behind without much work.
We need to borrow a page from the liberal playbook and go for incremental progress, not massive sweeping changes.
No offense taken.
Don't get me wrong, I certainly agree with you on the tax being completely BS and only burdensome. I'm definitely not happy about having to pay it.
I was more just "thinking out loud" in the sense that, like most bills, there's usually compromises that are made. Of course we should push and ask for it all, but like mentioned somewhere above, it's going to take baby steps.
I think everyone including the ATF knows that the whole idea of NFA is a joke.
-An AR Pistol with a brace is ok until you swap it out with a stock, which is practically only different in aesthetics.
-A 14.7" barrel on a rifle is a weapon of mass destruction, but that added 1.3" magically makes it safer.
The list goes on, and all of these can make you a felon.
I think the biggest issue they have with getting rid of NFA is the tax part. That's a lot of income for them, and I don't think they're very eager to let it go.
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