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Phase 1 - The Amendment Resolution, Format is from H.J.RES. 438, 102nd Congress:ELIGIBILITY TO RUN FOR CONGRESSJOINT RESOLUTIONPhase 2 - The Legislation, A Tax; Following adoption of the constitutional amendment, a bill to tax:
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States repealing the right to keep and bear arms.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid for all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States at any time after the date of its submission for ratification:'Article--
1. Any right to keep and bear arms, whether under the Second Amendment to this Constitution, or under some pre-existing doctrine of natural law or common law or otherwise, or under Constitution or laws of any State, is repealed.
2. The privilege to keep and bear arms throughout the United States shall be under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.'1. There is imposed an annual tax on each and every firearm in any household as follows:HATE MAIL:a. first firearm, $102. This tax is assessed and payable on each April 15 for firearms held by a household at the end of the preceding year, to be paid with a schedule listing firearm type, manufacturer and serial number, the schedule submitted along with the tax return of such member of the household as the members of the household may choose, with other members attaching a copy of that schedule to their tax returns as well indicating by which member the tax will be paid.
b. second firearm, $20
c. third firearm, $30
d. fourth through ninth firearms, $100 each
e. firearms in excess of the ninth, $1,000 each.
"Household" includes all persons residing or "visiting" overnight within a single dwelling unit. A household includes real property owned by or rented by and not rented out to others by any member of the household. Where firearms are owned by a partnership, if there is only one general partner the arms shall be included with the schedule of that general partner; where there is more than one general partner, the partners shall choose which partner will report the firearms. Where firearms are owned by a corporation, the corporation shall report and pay tax as if it were a household. Where fiscal years do not coincide with calendar years, reporting shall be as of the end of the previous fiscal year. For legitimate members of the military or law enforcement, "held by" shall exclude firearms issued to such members by the government agency which are currently known to be in the custody of such member by that agency, but shall include all other firearms including firearms improperly diverted from "evidence" or "seizures" or "confiscations". Where firearms are owned by a legitimate museum, the museum shall report the ownership annually as if it were a household, but shall be exempt from the tax except for the penalties in section 4 below.
Sham transfers, that is, transfers to a legitimate museum or to an entity with a different fiscal year, and then back again, shall be reported and taxed as if there had been no transfer. Sham exports, that is, export followed by reimportation shall be reported by and taxed to the exporter as if there had been no export. If a firearm has no serial number, the owner shall apply to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for the assignment of one, and upon receipt of the assigned serial number shall indelibly engrave that number at a suitable location upon the firearm.
3. This tax may be avoided by selling the firearm to a licensed gun dealer or by turning the firearm over to an official firearm collection location or by export before December 31 of the prior year. Once a month such collection locations shall turn collected firearms over to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for destruction, except that the Bureau may withhold from destruction such firearms as are of historical interest for later donation to an appropriate museum. A manufacturer, wholesaler or licensed gun dealer may avoid the tax on an individual firearm by selling it to a licensed gun dealer or a legitimate manufacturer or wholesaler or by the other methods in this Section by which anyone may avoid the tax on ownership. A licensed gun dealer may also avoid the tax on ownership of an individual firearm by selling it to a properly screened legitimate buyer
4. Any firearm lost or stolen will incur a $1,000 penalty in the reporting year it was lost or stolen. For any such lost or stolen firearm that is subsequently recovered by the owner that $1,000 penalty shall be rescinded and refunded, except if the firearm has been used in the commission of a crime chargeable as a felony an additional $1,000 penalty will be imposed. A $1000 penalty will also be imposed against a person owning a firearm if the person owning the firearm or someone that person "loaned" the firearm to uses it in the commission of a crime chargeable as a felony.
5. For each firearm sold by a licensed firearm dealer that is subsequently used in the commission of a crime chargeable as a felony a $1,000 penalty will be imposed against that dealer for each such year in which that firearm was used in such a crime.
6. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Internal Revenue Service shall jointly promulgate regulations for administering this Act.
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WHAT WILL THIS TAX DO?
- Gun shows go away
- Private sales go away
- Straw purchases go away
- Most dealers disappear
- Inventory shrinks
- Access declines
- Thefts from private collections shrink
- Black market sources shrink
- Owners become much more protective of their firearms
- Government's incentive to monitor is generated by revenue
- Jared Loughner's favorite gun store learns to take a really good hard proprietary insurance-motivated look at its customers; his opportunities to make those purchases diminish and sellers who remain would be less inclined to make his day.
- Timothy McVeigh cannot arrange to rob Roger Moore or sell the stolen guns to finance his Oklahoma City bombing
- The type of gun dealing that supported the Branch Davidians in Waco goes away.
- Dylan Klebold & Eric Harris would have had a more difficult time assembling their Columbine arsenal, Seung-Hui Cho his purchases for Virginia Tech ,
- and so on. People retain a reasonable inventory but the profligacy disappears.
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