Bill introduced to make Texas Independence Day a tax-free holiday for gun purchases

[motoman]

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2013/02/bill-introduced-to-make-texas-independence-day-a-tax-free-holiday-for-gun-purchases.html/

Looking for a reason to buy a gun in Texas? Republican State Rep. Jeff Leach has filed a bill to give Texas gun-buyers a break — making Texas Independence Day (March 2) a tax-free holiday for anyone who purchases a rifle, pistol, shotgun or semi-automatic. Buy a gun, skip the sales tax. Leach calls his bill the Texas Gun Ownership Reinforcement Act.

“Texas must take the lead in the fight against the federal government’s attempts to infringe on our Second Amendment Rights,” Leach said in a statement. ”As we fight against the federal government’s overreach, there is no more appropriate day to instate this tax-free holiday than on Texas Independence Day.”

Under this legislation, there would be no sales tax on the following items bought on Texas Independence Day:

Shotguns, rifles, pistols, revolvers, and other handguns

· Gun cleaning supplies, gun cases, gun safes, and optics

· Ammunition

· Archery equipment

· Hunting stands, blinds and decoys



Leach says idea has the endorsement of the National Rifle Association. Currently, there already is a tax-free holiday before every school year on the sale of back-to-school shoes, clothes, books, backpacks and supplies. Leach’s bill would extend the sales-tax break to guns.

[dee]

That would be nice.

[YALE]

Please, please, please, please let this pass.

[VaderTT]

Like

[MULEY4X4]

not soon enough for this year

[Sleeper]

Thats fucking awesome.

[Darren M]

MAIL YOUR REPS!!!!!!!!!!!! Find out who they are and tell them that you will vote against them if they do not support the bill. That's the only way this stuff gets done.

[Strychnine]

[GhostTX]

Sweetness

And the morons are out already:

[...]
Critics, however, instantly cringed at the suggestion of making it even easier for Texans to purchase firearms.
“Sane people would not be trying to put more guns on the streets,” said Peter Johnson, a long-time community activist who has spent years staging gun buy-back programs.
He estimates he has helped remove 20,000 guns from Dallas’ streets over the past 30 years. The weapons are then destroyed once they’ve been turned over to police departments.
“The Texas legislator from Plano who’s responsible for this idiotic, insane, neurotic idea is in need of help,” Johnson said. “Texas cannot afford to educate its children, so the last thing Texas needs is a tax-free day!”
News 8 reached out to half a dozen gun retailers in the Dallas area. None particularly welcomed the idea, and some worried it would only create more backlash against the gun industry.
“It’s stupid,” one pawn shop owner said of the proposal. He, like many, asked for his name not to be used, fearing backlash against his store.
“There’s too much in the news as it is without stirring the fire by making it a tax-free weekend,” the owner said.

http://www.wfaa.com/home/Making-guns-tax-free-at-least-for-a-day-193182831.html

Tax-free WEEKEND for anything and everything school related is ok.
Tax-free DAY for gun related items is 'we has no money!! Think of the children!!!'

...liberals...

[ceyko]

It would also be nice if gun purchases could be pre-arranged a little while out. Can you imagine how chaotic it would be at every single gun store? They'd be sold out the first hour across TX.

[CJ]

Anytime a story on NOT paying a tax is reinforced by quoting disseminating politicians you know it's a joke.

[ceyko]

Anytime a story on NOT paying a tax is reinforced by quoting disseminating politicians you know it's a joke.

Hey. It's nice to play make believe sometimes.