{"id":1516911,"date":"2022-06-15T09:34:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T13:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1516911"},"modified":"2022-06-15T09:34:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T13:34:25","slug":"virginia-dem-introduces-bill-to-hit-gun-buyers-where-it-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-dem-introduces-bill-to-hit-gun-buyers-where-it-hurts\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Dem Introduces Bill To Hit Gun Buyers Where It Hurts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvirginia-dem-introduces-bill-to-hit-gun-buyers-where-it-hurts%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1516911&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Photo-by-Alex-WongGetty-Images-e1655298410598.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Virginia Democratic Rep. Don Beyer introduced a bill Tuesday that would levy a 1,000% tax on select semi-automatic rifles and certain ammunition magazines in response to recent mass shootings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/beyer.house.gov\/uploadedfiles\/awe_act_text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">legislation<\/a> is intended to limit the number of weapons present in American communities, including AR-15s and high-capacity magazines, Breyer said when he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/repdonbeyer\/status\/1533465457671524353?s=21&#038;t=MhL1hiKQLuXC5Vvkj7Kydg\"><span>announced<\/span><\/a><span> the proposal earlier this month. The bill also applies to large-capacity ammunition feeding devices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><span>The legislation \u2026 would impose a 1000% excise tax on the manufacturer, importer, or producer of items defined as \u2018assault weapons\u2019 using terms similar to those in Congressman Cicilline\u2019s Assault Weapons Ban Act,\u201d <\/span>Beyer\u2019s press secretary Aaron Fritschner told The Daily Caller News Foundation. \u201cThe bill does contain exceptions for purchases by government entities such as federal, state and local law enforcement along with the U.S. military.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycallernewsfoundation.org\/2022\/06\/03\/joe-bidens-america-jim-jordan-tears-into-bidens-radical-gun-control-agenda\/\"><b>(RELATED: \u2018Joe Biden\u2019s America\u2019: Jim Jordan Tears Into Biden\u2019s \u2018Radical\u2019 Gun Control Agenda)<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Beyer\u2019s bill is a revenue measure, meaning it begins its legislative process in the House of Representatives and can pass in the Senate with only a simple majority vote instead of the 60 votes needed to pass most legislation.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEW: Introducing the Assault Weapon Excise Act.<\/p>\n<p>My bill would impose a 1000% excise tax on the manufacturer, importer, or producer of assault weapons and high capacity magazines. It\u2019s designed to bypass the filibuster and win Senate passage with 50 votes.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7K813ULBKn\">https:\/\/t.co\/7K813ULBKn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gfXTkMIiRg\">pic.twitter.com\/gfXTkMIiRg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepDonBeyer\/status\/1536823497078591494?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf the Senate is able to agree on the legislative package currently under discussion, which would be a very positive development, my bill would give the Senate an option for further action to address the epidemic of gun violence,\u201d Beyer said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span>The bill aims to prevent the buying of guns without formally making the included firearms illegal, according to Fritschner. Due to the bill\u2019s nature, specifically that it does not outright outlaw the purchase of firearms, Beyer intends for the bill to pass in the Senate without GOP support using the budget reconciliation process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A new Ar-15 rifle ranges in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/america-s-rifle-why-so-many-people-love-ar-15-n831171\"><span>price<\/span><\/a><span> from roughly $500 to over $2,000, according to NBC News. <\/span><span>According to a 2021 National Firearms<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3887145\"><span> Survey<\/span><\/a><span>, 32% of American citizens are gun owners, with the most prevalent motivation for gun ownership nationwide being for purely<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/americangunfacts.com\/guns-used-in-self-defense-stats\/\"><span> self-defense<\/span><\/a><span> reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Democratic Rep. Don Beyer introduced a bill Tuesday that would levy a 1,000% tax on select semi-automatic rifles and certain ammunition magazines in response to recent mass shootings.\u00a0The proposed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":934,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1516911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/934"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}