A House Democrat plans to introduce a bill that would hit AR-15's with a 1,000% tax -- and

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65. Absolutely.

Try this on for size. Semi auto pistols and long guns are tightly restricted thru an expansion of the Firearms Act of 1934 that put stringent controls on full auto. Same deal applies. You can have bolt, pump, lever or beak action, with magazines not greater than 5 rounds under the current background check then walk out of the store same day, weapon(s) in hand rules. Revolvers are tightly controlled. You've got to have a damn good reason, takes weeks with tons of paperwork. And "I'm scared!!11!1!" isn't a damn good reason. If you're all tore up about "home defense" from orcs and assorted "brown people" buy a goddamn 12 gauge pump and stop whining.

Buy back everything in existing ownership that doesn't conform to those rules. If we can blow a trillion+ on Afghanistan, this is the least we can do to prevent future massacres.

There. You can have some gunz and school children are far less likely to be murdered wholesale. We're just not going to sacrifice elementary school kids anymore for either someone's fetishes or people who can't understand the use of a fucking COMMA in a constitutional amendment. Enough.