Nope. Not going to agree to anything that will keep the NFRTR registration. If they want to tax sales of NFA firearms for medicare funding, do it like they do with Pittman-Robertson funding for wildlife restoration, an excise tax at the point of sale.<\/p>\n
Health Care for Gun Rights? Bill Would Reverse Silencer Tax for Medicare Funds<\/a><\/p>\n A coalition of Democrat legislators is backing a move to rewind\u00a0last summer\u2019s repeal<\/a>\u00a0of the NFA tax on suppressors, short-barrel rifles, and similar items to fund their own health-care initiative.<\/p>\n These\u00a0sponsors<\/a>\u00a0are backing the so-called\u00a0Medicare Investment and Gun Violence Prevention Act<\/em><\/a>, which would repeal the hard-fought removal of NFA taxes established by Trump\u2019s\u00a0One Big Beautiful Bill<\/em><\/a>. The scheme would then reinstitute the tax and direct the funds to pay for Medicare costs.<\/p>\n Current backers include Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) and a host of blue-state senators like Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.). They claim the re-removal of Americans\u2019 gun rights would scrounge up some $1.7 billion in taxes over the next decade.<\/p>\n \u201cThis legislation is a 2-for-1 response to Republicans driving up health care costs and letting guns invade our communities,\u201d claimed Sen. Alsobrooks. \u201cWhen Republicans snuck in tax cuts to the Big Ugly Bill on gun silencers and short-barreled rifles, they made their position clear: guns matter more than Americans\u2019 lives. At a time when health care costs are skyrocketing, and just days after yet another tragic school shooting, now is the time to act. Our bill will repeal the unnecessary tax cuts on deadly weapons and use the money saved for Americans\u2019 health care, which has been decimated by Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n Of course, it is not \u201cmoney saved,\u201d as Sen. Alsobrooks claims. It is money taken, via a defunct tax mechanism, from Americans exercising their constitutionally protected Second Amendment rights. Ironically, it also attacks proven hearing safety devices like suppressors in the name of better health care.<\/p>\n The move to snatch back gun rights via NFA taxes is backed by a host of anti-gun interest groups, ranging from Newtown Action Alliance and Brady to Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence.<\/p>\n While the plot is an extreme long shot in the currently Republican-controlled House and Senate, many Democrats are eagerly looking to next year\u2019s midterm elections. At the moment, it is hard to take the barely 2.5-page bill seriously, but 2026 is just around the corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nope. Not going to agree to anything that will keep the NFRTR registration. If they want to tax sales of NFA firearms for medicare funding, do it like they do with Pittman-Robertson funding for wildlife restoration, an excise tax at the point of sale. Health Care for Gun Rights? Bill Would Reverse Silencer Tax for … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114114,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114113\/revisions\/114114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}