{"id":1993097,"date":"2023-08-07T12:53:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T16:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrats-bill-would-impose-1000-percent-excise-tax-on-assault-weapons-high-capacity-magazines\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T12:54:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T16:54:08","slug":"house-democrats-bill-would-impose-1000-percent-excise-tax-on-assault-weapons-high-capacity-magazines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrats-bill-would-impose-1000-percent-excise-tax-on-assault-weapons-high-capacity-magazines\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrat proposes 1,000% excise tax on &#8216;assault weapons&#8217; and &#8216;high-capacity&#8217; magazines."},"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\">24<\/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%2Fhouse-democrats-bill-would-impose-1000-percent-excise-tax-on-assault-weapons-high-capacity-magazines%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=1993097&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--><h2>Democrats Propose Bill\u2062 to Increase Prices of Semiautomatic\u200d Firearms<\/h2>\n<p>Attention\u2064 all \u200bfirearm\u2064 enthusiasts! Brace yourselves for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/6-celebrities-who-risked-their-careers-to-defy-cancel-culture\/\" title=\"6 Celebrities Who Risked Their Careers to Defy Cancel Culture\u00a0\">potential blow<\/a> to your wallets.\u200d A group of over\u200c two dozen Democrats\u2064 are rallying behind a new bill that could make purchasing\u2064 certain\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/22-state-ags-file-brief-with-scotus-opposing-federal-firearm-accessory-ban\/\" title=\"22 State AGs File Brief With SCOTUS Opposing Federal Firearm Accessory Ban\">semiautomatic firearms<\/a> a luxury only a few\u200c can afford.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the charge is Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.), who \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-kelly-same-people-criticizing-trump-peddled-russia-collusion-hoax\/\" title=\"Mike Kelly: Same People Criticizing Trump Peddled Russia Collusion Hoax\">recently introduced<\/a> a groundbreaking piece of \u200clegislation. This \u200bbill, if passed, would impose an astronomical 1,000 percent excise tax on\u2062 the acquisition \u2064of &#8220;assault weapons&#8221; \u2062and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrats-bill-would-impose-1000-percent-excise-tax-on-assault-weapons-high-capacity-magazines\/\" title=\"House Democrat proposes 1,000% excise tax on 'assault weapons' and 'high-capacity' magazines.\">large capacity ammunition \u200dfeeding devices<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Imagine this scenario: you&#8217;ve got your eye on a sleek $500 rifle, ready to make it yours. But hold\u2063 on \u200btight, because\u2063 under this proposed law, \u200dyou&#8217;d have to cough up an\u200d additional $5,000! That&#8217;s right, a whopping five grand on top of the original price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill backed by over two dozen Democrats may make it unaffordable for those seeking to purchase specific semiautomatic firearms. Proposed by Rep. Beyer (D-Va.), the legislation suggests a 1,000 percent excise tax on &#8220;assault weapons&#8221; and &#8220;large capacity ammunition feeding devices,&#8221; potentially pricing interested buyers out of the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1759,"featured_media":1993098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993097","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\/1759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}