Texan Wants Tax-Free Holiday for Gun Buyers | Drudge Retort

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Texan Wants Tax-Free Holiday for Gun Buyers

A Plano lawmaker has introduced legislation to create a tax-free holiday for gun-buyers in Texas. The holiday would take place on Texas Independence Day, March 2. "We filed this bill, the Texas Gun Ownership Reinforcement Act, because we sincerely and strongly believe that Texas should take the lead in the fight against the federal government's attempts to infringe on our Second Amendment rights," said state Rep. Jeff Leach (R), who introduced the bill. "This act encourages and incentivizes lawful gun ownership and allows law-abiding citizens, hunters and sportsmen the opportunity to save money on firearms."

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Plano Texas murder rate: 2/100,000
www.neighborhoodscout.com

Chicago Illinois murder rate: 16/100,000
www.neighborhoodscout.com

#1 | Posted by Zatoichi at 2013-02-26 06:15 PM | Reply | Flag:

Wonder when Illinois will have a tax-free gun buying holiday?
But then Illinois doesn't have an Independence Day like The Republic of Texas.

#2 | Posted by Zatoichi at 2013-02-27 06:08 AM | Reply | Flag:

Goatman's from Plano.
Explains a lot.

#3 | Posted by Zatoichi at 2013-02-27 07:27 AM | Reply | Flag:

Goatman's from Plano.

Safest city in America: Plano

Best run city in America: Plano

#4 | Posted by goatman at 2013-02-27 07:52 AM | Reply | Flag:

But then Illinois doesn't have an Independence Day like The Republic of Texas.

March 2nd used to be a holiday in Texas. Banks closed, school was out. They don't do that any more. Probably because someone was offended and whined.

#5 | Posted by goatman at 2013-02-27 08:07 AM | Reply | Flag:

Moochers.

#6 | Posted by Sully at 2013-02-27 09:56 AM | Reply | Flag:

The NRA is a marketing organization whose real purpose is to convince people to buy more guns. This politician is doing its work very well.

#7 | Posted by rcade at 2013-02-27 10:09 AM | Reply | Flag:

Most people all ready own on average 4 guns each. So tax free is no big deal. If they really want to get serious they would end the ban on only one wife. Our Muslim brothers and sisters understand real freedom where a man can have 5,6,7 or 10 wives.

Isn't it time for real freedom,let the people decide for themselves.

#8 | Posted by truthteller101 at 2013-02-27 10:53 AM | Reply | Flag:

Man...how about not taxes on ammo. Sheesh...if you can afford to buy a firearm, you don't have enough left over to put bullets in it.

#9 | Posted by justanoversight at 2013-02-27 11:20 AM | Reply | Flag:

Guns Guns Guns Guns Guns Guns Guns...so warm and creamy!

#10 | Posted by justanoversight at 2013-02-27 11:21 AM | Reply | Flag:

"When I hold you in my arms
And I feel my finger on your trigger
I know nobody can do me no harm because:

Happiness is a warm gun
Bang bang, shoot shoot"

#11 | Posted by goatman at 2013-02-27 11:25 AM | Reply | Flag:

Most people all ready own on average 4 guns each. So tax free is no big deal. If they really want to get serious they would end the ban on only one wife. Our Muslim brothers and sisters understand real freedom where a man can have 5,6,7 or 10 wives.
Isn't it time for real freedom,let the people decide for themselves.

#8 | POSTED BY TRUTHTELLER101

You are confusing Freedom and Torture.

Polygamy: Making a second mistake before you correct the first.

#12 | Posted by Sycophant at 2013-02-27 11:34 AM | Reply | Flag:

When will the typical middle of the road gun nut figure out that the NRA is just a money producing shill of the gun manufacturing industry, and that the politicians who are shills for the NRA and receive regular large donations from the NRA really are doing nothing more than accepting bribes from gun makers?

#13 | Posted by moder8 at 2013-02-27 11:35 AM | Reply | Flag:

Plano Texas murder rate: 2/100,000
www.neighborhoodscout.com
Chicago Illinois murder rate: 16/100,000
www.neighborhoodscout.com
#1 | POSTED BY ZATOICHI

You can't compare Plano to a major metropolitan area with a high poverty rate.

Worse: St. Paul, MN murder rate: 3/100,000
www.neighborhoodscout.com

In a liberal, non-gun crazy state, the murder rate is low.

#14 | Posted by Sycophant at 2013-02-27 11:45 AM | Reply | Flag:

You can't compare Plano to a major metropolitan area with a high poverty rate.

Bastrop county murder rate: Zero.

#15 | Posted by Zatoichi at 2013-02-27 11:47 AM | Reply | Flag:

Have a nice time in Chicago, Archimedes.

#16 | Posted by Zatoichi at 2013-02-27 11:48 AM | Reply | Flag:

Of course there's always El Paso-Juarez; One city with guns legal on one side of the river: Safest large city in the US; And on the other side guns are verboten ...

LOL

Idiots.

#17 | Posted by Zatoichi at 2013-02-27 11:50 AM | Reply | Flag:

With guns sales at all time highs and religious doing each other. The sales of filthy bible books are at a all time low.

What a great time to be alive and sit back and watch!

#18 | Posted by truthteller101 at 2013-02-27 12:04 PM | Reply | Flag:

Kind of makes you respect the man in the red suit even more!

#19 | Posted by truthteller101 at 2013-02-27 12:06 PM | Reply | Flag:

What the true title of the thread should be is, "Gun Manufacturers Want Tax Free Holiday in Texas so They Can Sell More Guns". And then, an honest article, would discuss how the gun manufacturers, through their frontmen in the NRA, have successfully bought and paid for numerous local politicians to get them to push the idea.

The transparency and greed of the gun maker groups would be laughable but for the fact that there are so many stupid people who buy into the idea that they actually give a damn about anything other than profits.

#20 | Posted by moder8 at 2013-02-27 12:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

Small government fiscal conservatives doing what they do best: Handing out corporate welfare.

#21 | Posted by snoofy at 2013-02-27 12:18 PM | Reply | Flag:

Small government fiscal conservatives doing what they do best: Handing out corporate welfare.

#21 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2013-02-27 12:18 PM | FLAG: LIKE oBAMA's TAX BREAKS FOR GE - RIGHT?

#22 | Posted by MSgt at 2013-02-27 12:40 PM | Reply | Flag:

#21 I did not know Obama a small government fiscal conservative.

#24 | Posted by snoofy at 2013-02-27 01:15 PM | Reply | Flag:

why not?

we give a tax holiday to buy clothes for school...why not for something that could possibly keep that kid in their now school clothes alive to wear them?

#25 | Posted by afkabl2 at 2013-02-27 01:17 PM | Reply | Flag:

Of course there's always El Paso-Juarez; One city with guns legal on one side of the river: Safest large city in the US; And on the other side guns are verboten ...
LOL
Idiots.

#17 | POSTED BY ZATOICHI

Comparing El Paso to Juarez and saying its the guns? Really? Your comparisons defy logic.

El Paso has only 600,000 people. It's has the largest drug trade along the border. It does have an excellent police force and strong border patrol presence. But the lucrative drug trade and keeping it concealed account more for its low crime rate than "guns."

Plano is a suburb of high murder rate Dallas; one of the most dangerous cities in the world.

If Guns are the reason for low murder rates, why the disparity between Plano and Dallas?

By the way, the other "safest cities' happen to be in states with high levels of gun control.

#26 | Posted by Sycophant at 2013-02-27 02:00 PM | Reply | Flag:

When will the typical middle of the road gun nut figure out that the NRA is just a money producing shill of the gun manufacturing industry, and that the politicians who are shills for the NRA and receive regular large donations from the NRA really are doing nothing more than accepting bribes from gun makers?

???

When wiil you figure out they have that figured out already? What makes you think they don't?

#27 | Posted by goatman at 2013-02-27 02:57 PM | Reply | Flag:

#20 | Posted by moder8
What the true title of the thread should be is...

Funny, I did not see one word about the NRA or gun manufacturers in the article. Although, that won't stop you and others from jumping off the cliff.

If the thread title needs adjustment it should be that "Legislator" wants, like the thread article. That legislator is not Texas.

#28 | Posted by et_al at 2013-02-27 03:03 PM | Reply | Flag:

What the true title of the thread should be is, "Gun Manufacturers Want Tax Free Holiday in Texas so They Can Sell More Guns". And then, an honest article, would discuss how the gun manufacturers, through their frontmen in the NRA, have successfully bought and paid for numerous local politicians to get them to push the idea.

So the NRA is doing what The National Cattleman's Beef Association and dozens of other beef associations do for beef? And what the American Dairy Associations does for milk? And the American Boatin Association does for boats?

Heaven forbid an association pushes and lobbies a product moder8 doesn't like!

What a selfish, self-centered, "it's-all-about-me" _____________[fill in the blank, because if I do, I get suspended]

#29 | Posted by goatman at 2013-02-27 03:06 PM | Reply | Flag:

"I did not see one word about the NRA or gun manufacturers in the article."

That never stopped a lying shyster.

#30 | Posted by Zatoichi at 2013-02-27 03:06 PM | Reply | Flag:

Goatman grew up in Plano.
I remember when it was a tiny farming town.

#31 | Posted by Zatoichi at 2013-02-27 03:07 PM | Reply | Flag:

I remember when [Plano] was a tiny farming town.

Then EDS came. I went there once for a document production. I doubt the CIA's Langley has such security.

#32 | Posted by et_al at 2013-02-27 03:27 PM | Reply | Flag:

Here's a clue for the headline rewrite lie and distortion team:
Texan does not necessarily mean state legislator.

#33 | Posted by Zatoichi at 2013-02-27 03:29 PM | Reply | Flag:

I remember when Plano just made tackle boxes.

☺

#34 | Posted by madscientist at 2013-02-27 03:39 PM | Reply | Flag:

Ahahaa.

Once again the [bleep] running around complaining about how Obama has stolen peoples wealth, and that people can't afford the essentials because of Obama, come up with a marketing scheme to encourage these very same people to spend their money not on the essentials they just claimed people couldn't afford --- but rather on a new pistol.

If it wasn't so mind numbingly stupid – it would be funny

#35 | Posted by ChiefTutMoses at 2013-02-27 03:51 PM | Reply | Flag:

"By the way, the other "safest cities' happen to be in states with high levels of gun control."

Not sure what you were looking at, but out of the list I look at, only two of the top ten safest cities were in states that impose heavy restrictions on private ownership of weapons.

But I don't think that matters. You could impose Mexican-style gun laws in Detroit and it's not going to make a difference. It's still going to look like Juarez. Trying to outlaw private ownership of weapons as a means of discouraging or preventing violent crime addresses a symptom as opposed to a the root cause. Like putting a Band-Aid on an infected wound.

#36 | Posted by madbomber at 2013-02-27 07:20 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Once again the [bleep] running around complaining about how Obama has stolen peoples wealth, and that people can't afford the essentials because of Obama, come up with a marketing scheme to encourage these very same people to spend their money not on the essentials they just claimed people couldn't afford --- but rather on a new pistol."

Clearly this is a political ploy, intended to prove a point. Because with a few exceptions, there simply aren't any guns to buy-tax holiday or not.

#37 | Posted by madbomber at 2013-02-27 07:23 PM | Reply | Flag:

.... The Big Criminals Vilify Ordinary Americans!

**** Oddly the Greatest & Vilest Criminals in America are NOW the Gun Owners...and not the US Govt "War Mongers" or their evil cronies the "Banksters"...who are together the same ones who have actively and persistently Raped & Pillaged the USA and many foreign countries under the Bush & Obama Administrations! How many innocent people around the world did private American gun owners MURDER...or Bankrupt...compared to the Bush and Obama Regimes?

#38 | Posted by AntiCadillac at 2013-02-28 08:14 AM | Reply | Flag:

"Safest city in America: Plano"

not that i'm for gun control in anyway that the politicians are feeding it to us because i'm not.

but affluent newtown had less less murders than affluent plano... it just takes one entitled sociopath who has access to guns, even though not allowed to purchase themself, to turn those numbers right around and make plano feel the darkness that newtown felt.

nobody has a solution for that.
and nobody has a solution on how to remove illegal guns off the streets.

#39 | Posted by klifferd at 2013-02-28 12:42 PM | Reply | Flag:

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