Frankly, I’m really sick of this whole thing. There’s a handy website called Google that dispatches these rumors with a simple query, but it seems that people would rather fly into hysterics over innuendo than check facts.
I am responding to the numerous daily emails I get about the matter by simply cutting and pasting the following into the reply box. I also have a few printed copies to hand out to address personal queries. Feel free to reprint and use this.
You do not, and will not, have to report your guns on your income tax forms.
This is at best a misunderstanding, and at worst, an outright lie. SB-2099 was introduced in 2000 by Senator Jack Reed. It never went anywhere, and it does not exist in the current legislature.
There is no Federal licensing or registration scheme pending on handguns.
H.R. 45 (also referred to as the “Blair Holt Act”) is dead. Continued...