As Connecticut’s state legislature began working on gun-control proposals and Vice President Joe Biden readied a push in Congress (with the Senate’s majority leader already waving the red flag), New Haven U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro weighed in with her own bill in response to last month’s Newtown school massacre.
DeLauro calls her proposal the Support Assault Firearm Elimination and Reduction, or “SAFER Streets” Act.
She unveiled it Monday.
She described it this way in a release: The SAFER Streets Act creates a $2,000 refundable tax credit ($1,000 for two consecutive years) for an assault weapon owner who turns in their firearm to the state police.”
She said she got the idea from “a Connecticut veteran who owns an AR-15 and wanted to help urge other assault weapon owners to do their part to help prevent future tragedies.”
That's twice the brand new price of a BushMaster rifle.
http://www.cabelas.com/semiautomatic-bushmaster-firearms-15-rifles-4.shtml
So the Congresswoman wants to use taxpayer dollars to create a secondary market paying double for rifles? Wouldn't that encourage more production and purchase? Aren't gun buyback plans successful even when they give away a pittance of $100 BestBuy gift cards? Has Rosa's office ever heard of the internet with which they might explore these cost questions?