Starvin Larry

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) is set to reintroduce legislation this week that would provide a $2,000 tax credit to people who chose to turn in an assault weapon to law enforcement.

According to the Support Assault Firearm Elimination and Education of our (SAFER) Streets Act, the term ‘specified assault weapon’ that people could turn in for the tax credit includes a long list of pistols, rifles and shotguns including:

AR–15, Bushmaster XM15, Armalite M15, SKS with detachable magazine, SLG 95, SLR 95, Striker 12 and “a semiautomatic rifle that has an ability to accept a detachable magazine, and that has— a folding or telescoping stock, a threaded barrel, a pistol grip, a forward grip, or a barrel shroud.”

Click here to see the list of weapons covered by the bill.

“Assault weapons are not about hunting, or even self-defense. There is no reason on Earth, other than to kill as many people as possible in as short a time as possible, that anyone needs a gun designed for a battlefield,” DeLauro says in her press release.

The SAFER Streets Act creates a $2,000 refundable tax credit ($1,000 for two consecutive years) for an assault weapon owner who gives their firearm to law enforcement.

DeLauro first introduced the bill in 2013.