To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
IF the issue is gun safety, why not make it beneficial to buy a gun safe?
Please consider giving a tax break to individuals who purchase a gun safe to secure their firearms for the sales tax and purchase value. The sales tax would apply to taxes paid and the value would be added to any return or tax bill to offset the cost of getting a decent product to secure firearms. Had there been safes in Portland and Newtown, those firearms would not have been involved in the spree killings in those places and would also have prevented many accidental shootings in homes over the last year as well.
Why is this important?
With all the attention given to the tools used by spree killers recently and Sen Feinstein's bill that has ex post facto issues as she plans to introduce it (make things that are legally owned today illegal through no action of the owners beside 'owning' said item) why not attach one of the roots of this issue.
The Oregon mall shooter stole the semi-automatic rifle that he used to kill two people (before being confronted by a person with a concealed carry permit and killed himself) was stolen from a friend who did not have it locked up. The firearms carried by the spree killer in Newtown, CT stole them from his mother who did not have them properly secured.
A solution to this is to write into the tax code a tax exemption for any sales tax paid on a gun safe as well as a credit on the personal return for the total purchase value of the safe. This is just for personal safes in private homes.
The Oregon mall shooter stole the semi-automatic rifle that he used to kill two people (before being confronted by a person with a concealed carry permit and killed himself) was stolen from a friend who did not have it locked up. The firearms carried by the spree killer in Newtown, CT stole them from his mother who did not have them properly secured.
A solution to this is to write into the tax code a tax exemption for any sales tax paid on a gun safe as well as a credit on the personal return for the total purchase value of the safe. This is just for personal safes in private homes.