From the Usual Suspects...

Dem bill would trigger huge new taxes on guns, ammo

“What the anti-gun interests can’t ban, they want to tax it out of existence,” Alan Gottlieb, chairman for the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, told FoxNews.com. “It’s nothing more than confiscatory taxation.

As the man says, the point here isn't to combat anything but honest gun owners. Call it what you want. Its still gun control.

The prognosis for this bill is dire, but call your representatives anyway and tell them to oppose it.