Dem Reps Sponsor Bill for 20 Percent Tax on Handguns

Big Government reports:

Representative Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.) and Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) are sponsoring legislation which amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include a 20 percent tax on handguns--"pistols [and] revolvers"--as well as a 50 percent tax on "shells and cartridges."

The bill is H.R. 3018 and it is titled the "Gun Violence Prevention and Safe Communities Act of 2013."

News 12 New Jersey reports that Pascrell believes a new tax on handguns "has been a long time coming." In announcing the legislation on August 21, Pascrell said, "The tax on handguns was last increased in 1955. Worse yet, the tax rate on ammunition and other types of firearms has remained the same since 1941."

Just a reminder, Congressman Danny Davis used the floor of the U.S. House to honor the man that pushed for Chicago's gun control ban- who was a high ranking made member of the Chicago Mob .