{"id":23668,"date":"2013-06-17T18:24:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T23:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=23668"},"modified":"2013-06-17T18:24:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T23:24:12","slug":"u-s-rep-sam-graves-r-mo-praised-for-introduction-of-h-r-2361-protecting-americans-second-amendment-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/u-s-rep-sam-graves-r-mo-praised-for-introduction-of-h-r-2361-protecting-americans-second-amendment-rights\/23668\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Rep Sam Graves (R-Mo.) Praised for Introduction of H.R. 2361, Protecting Americans Second Amendment Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23669\" style=\"width: 196px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23669\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23669\" alt=\"sam_graves_headshot\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sam_graves_headshot.png\" width=\"186\" height=\"234\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.)<\/p><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">NEWTOWN, Conn. &#8212; The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms and ammunition industry, today praised U.S. Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) for his introduction of H.R. 2361, legislation intended to prevent states and municipalities from enacting or raising taxes or fees on the purchase of firearms or ammunition.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8220;Congressman Graves is to be commended for introducing a bill to prevent one of the latest tactics of anti-gun politicians, that is pricing firearms and ammunition out of reach of responsible, law-abiding Americans through new taxes on the state or local level,&#8221; said Lawrence G. Keane, senior vice president and general counsel, NSSF. &#8220;We believe that such taxes are unconstitutional and, in effect, amount to a poll tax on the Second Amendment. We endorse H.R. 2361.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Cook County, Illinois enacted a $25 tax on new firearms purchases earlier this year and had considered a tax on ammunition, as well. Legislators in several other states, including California, Maryland and New Jersey have introduced similar proposals.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">H.R. 2361 is known as the Protecting Honest, Everyday Americans from Senseless and Needless Taxes Act, or PHEASANT Act.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?e=001UTWj_eCAuB0kuGo5zbcpiYnbcT2PlUUPLE_TyRN0LIITCdl6V7RLN4d5N9fE8i8OulCXcclwgIiwsHTLQ5e5XOugZHWnximhT_IbwwUboWYqHNbD4I3-7F7FRiu-G6WXgNnFZpcJXj3Z4TsjdEhJkC-m-XtQhBP2\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read the bill here<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>About NSSF<sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>The National Shooting Sports Foundation<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> is the trade association for the firearms industry. Its mission is to promote, protect and preserve hunting and the shooting sports. Formed in 1961, NSSF has a membership of more than 8,000 manufacturers, distributors, firearms retailers, shooting ranges, sportsmen&#8217;s organizations and publishers. For more information, log on to <a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?e=001UTWj_eCAuB1Ya1l-9AHKZBQFg1LNYnhpAvvFwYPR93242XqUdOOvnN9XtfIeYjHJezbik0LAx4hH_USj4k1W_sSRKBuuCOS7p1P4wvhL1-uGAx3h4EMY5Q==\">www.nssf.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H.R. 2361 is known as the Protecting Honest, Everyday Americans from Senseless and Needless Taxes Act, or PHEASANT Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":23669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58,5],"tags":[463,97],"class_list":["post-23668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-from-the-industry","category-second-amendment","tag-national-shooting-sports-foundation","tag-nssf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}