Legislative News From The Swamp

Rep. Jamie Raskin [Dumbass-MD8] has filed two new firearm bills.

H.R.2427 – To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the transfer tax on certain firearms, and for other purposes does two things. First, it would immediately raise the NFA stamp tax price to $300, from the current $200. Thereafter, it increases annually by the cost-of-living adjustment. That’s bad enough, but the second thing it does is worse.

It channels the tax stamp revenue to the DOJ and ATF so they can fund “gun violence prevention initiatives.” That sounds like grants to Demanding Mommies and whatevername Brady is using this month (honestly, I can’t keep up).

I’d give this one a fifty-fifty chance of passage. Law ‘n order Republicans might just roll over on tax stamps.

Compared to that, H.R.2426 – To prohibit the transfer of a firearm to a person whose State license to purchase, own, or possess a firearm has been revoked, or a person who has been ordered by a State court to surrender all firearms is almost funny. The title says it all. Clearly Raskin, in his idiocy, has mistaken Maryland for the rest of the country.

There are twelve states, and the District of Calamity, that require any sort of license to purchase or possess a firearm. And, generally speaking, the things that get a license revoked are usually things that make one a prohibited person anyway. Ditto with court orders to not possess guns. HR 2426 is basically a redundant waste of taxpayer-funded time and money.

This bill I give a 70% chance of passage. Again, the law ‘n order Republicans will tend to like preventing criminals getting guns, and some will support as a dickering tool, since they’ll largely see it as redundant.

Then again, I suppose I might have underestimated Raskin’s intelligence. He could have filed it as an expendable bill that the Dims can sacrifice in a pretend-compromise.

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