[brownie]

Senate Bill SB-2099 will require us to put on our 2009 1040 federal tax form all guns that you have or own. It may require fingerprints and a tax of $50 per gun.

This bill was introduced on Feb. 24. This bill will become public knowledge 30 days after it is voted into law. This is an amendment to the Internal Revenue Act of 1986. This means that the Finance Committee can pass this without the Senate voting on it at all.

The full text of the proposed amendment is on the U.S. Senate homepage, http://www.senate.gov/
You can find the bill by doing a search by the bill number, SB-2099.

 

[deadeyedick]

Relax, it's a hoax.

 

[capngeo]

Not that I've ever done so, but I hear people lie on their tax returns!

 

[Steve48]

I came up dry on that search. Leaving out the dash yielded 4 unrelated hits.

 

[T.S.]

Relax, it's a hoax.

Do you have a link to that hoax information?

 

[brownie]

Relax, it's a hoax.

That information just potentially saved me 8000.00 a year !!!!

 

[Steve48]

Brownie, I don't believe that you only have 160 guns!

 

[brownie]

Brownie, I don't believe that you only have 160 guns!

Read post 3 :laughing

 

[Rvrctyrngr]

Google is your friend:

SB 2099 Urban Legend...been around since Y2K.

 

[T.S.]

That information just potentially saved me 8000.00 a year !!!!

Here is a link about the hoax ...

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa091900a.htm

SB-2099 - Bill Requiring Federal Tax on Guns
Take a grain of truth, sprinkle with false and misleading statements, add a heaping dollop of paranoia, and what do you have?
Description: Email rumor
Circulating since: Sep. 2000
Status: Outdated / False


Email example contributed by a reader, Sep. 18, 2000:

Gun owners beware!

Back Door Bill (SB-2099)

Senate Bill SB-2099 will require us to put on our 2000 1040 federal tax Form all guns that you have or own. It may require fingerprints and a tax of $50 per gun. This bill was introduced on Feb. 24. This bill will become public knowledge 30 days after it is voted into law. This is an amendment to the Internal Revenue Act of 1986. This means that the Finance Committee can pass this without the Senate voting on it at all.

The full text of the proposed amendment is on the U.S. Senate homepage: http://www.senate.gov/. You can find the bill by doing a search by the bill number. (SB-2099) You know who to call; I strongly suggest you do. Please send a copy of this e-mail to every gun owner you know to help STOP this bill!!

PLEASE NOTE: This is an old rumor dating back to September 2000 (see analysis and update below). No such bill was introduced in 2009.

 

[Steve48]

Read post 3 :laughing

:rolf . Ranged me perfectly! :rolf

 

[Uechi]

Nice try Brownie but no cigar. Even if it was true I wouldn't declare them.

 

[dudester]

Guns, what guns?

 

[J T]

Snopes is your friend:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/taxreturns.asp

 

[Jbuck]

what's a 1040? :smack

 

[brownie]

what's a 1040?

Tax return

Brownie

 

[chevthunder454]

Is this a gun forum? Im sorry people, I thought I was registered to a hardware and tool forum. I thought those hammers looked a little funny.