Repealing Punitive Gun Taxes: Say Hello to the RIFLE Act
Lower taxes? You’ve got our attention …
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) has energetically thrown its support behind the Repealing Illegal Freedom and Liberty Excises (RIFLE) Act, introduced by Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton.
The legislation would remove the federal tax imposed on firearms and accessories regulated under the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA).
Joining Cotton as co-sponsors are fellow Republican Senators John Barrasso (Wyoming), Marsha Blackburn (Tennessee), John Cornyn (Texas), Kevin Cramer (North Dakota), Steve Daines (Montana), Deb Fischer (Nebraska), Cynthia Lummis (Wyoming), Roger Marshall (Kansas), Markwayne Mullin (Oklahoma), Pete Ricketts (Nebraska), and both Marco Rubio and Rick Scott (Florida). Republican Congresswoman Ashley Hinson of Iowa has introduced companion legislation in the House, Cotton’s office noted.
“For decades, law-abiding American citizens choosing to own NFA-regulated firearms have been required to pay unnecessary taxes to exercise their Second Amendment rights,” explained CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “This is, and always has been, wrong and we’re delighted Senator Cotton and a dozen of his Senate colleagues have made this important move to correct the problem. We’re encouraged by Rep. Hinson’s introduction of companion legislation in the House that this measure will get the attention it deserves.”
Under NFA, such firearms as short-barreled rifles and shotguns—popular generations ago among outdoorsmen and women involved in hunting and trapping—fully-automatic firearms and widely popular suppressors, are subject to a special $200 tax which was originally adopted in 1934 to curtail, by making it prohibitively expensive, to own such firearms and accessories.
“Over the past few years,” Gottlieb noted, “ownership of NFA-regulated items has increased by more than 250 percent. The use of suppressors primarily as hearing protection at shooting ranges, and for hunting, is expanding. The RIFLE Act would only remove the tax on these items, while leaving other requirements including background checks and registration in place. We’re encouraging gun owners to support Senator Cotton’s legislation.”
Firearm owners need to take a lesson from the other side of the aisle. Keep at it. The longer that you persist, the more followers you will gain, the louder your voice will be. There are more firearm owners everyday. That voting block is getting larger, more confident, and louder.
Well, seeing as this “RIFLE Act” was first mooted back in ’20 or ’21 and didn’t pass then, I sure don’t see it gaining any real traction in today’s Dem-controlled Senate.
I would like to see this happen, unfortunately I believe it is just political rhetoric during an election year. The day will come when it is going to happen. Just not as soon as we want.
why are you even living there
What about local taxes. Where I live in Cook County (Chicago and the surrounding suburbs) there is a $25 tax on every firearm purchased in addition to a over 10% sales tax and a an ammunition tax in addition to sales tax.
Since you live in Illinois, you don’t have to buy in Chicago. If you can get to one of the less restrictive cities without too much hassle that’s the way you should go. I live a few miles south of you and it’s a lot less of a problem here. Of course, the 10% tax is still one of those nasty Illinois problems.
Best advice: Leave Illinois! It’s been a demoncrap stronghold for decades. IT WILL NEVER CHANGE!
Illinois is for the most part nearly all rural. Exceptions are a couple big cities, like Chicago, Springfield and couple others which control enough Democrate votes and state Democrat Congressman and Senators to Control who gets and runs the office of Governor. State houses are so packed with Democrats a Republican Governor’s veto gets over ruled. Seems like we only find very liberal Democrats or Criminal Republicans. So until the rural areas can get better representation we are doomed to the above. It’s tough living in a state like New York, meaning beautiful state landscape filled with tons of liberals, Democrats and Criminals. Thank god I stay away from these big cities and crime they bring.