Yes, I saw it.  Neal Knox reported on it, and had this to say:    "The internet is in a furor over S. 2099, Freshman Rhode Island Sen. Reed's handgun registration bill, which essentially amends the 1934 National Firearms Act to apply to handguns, imposing a $50 tax.
    (The 1934 bill would have imposed a $10 handgun tax, but Atty. Gen. Homer Cummings and Congress agreed to drop that when NRA dropped its objection to the prohibitive $200 transfer tax on machine guns and short-barrelled shotguns -- the law that paved the way for Federal gun laws.)

     Reed is a back-bencher.  His bill is much too radical to pass -- therefore, it's one of the many bad bills proposed every year that we don't have to worry about.      As if it wasn't bad enough, someone juiced up gunowners by falsely claiming we would have to put the serial numbers of our
handguns on next year's tax return.  And further claiming that  this tax could be passed by a vote of the Finance Committee, without the approval of Congress.  Get real, folks!      I suggest everyone pay attention to the stuff that is a real threat, like the trigger locks, gun show background checks
and all the other new gun laws that NRA approved and both houses passed last year -- and S. 2525, the Feinstein-Schumer registration bill that I expect them to at least try to get a vote on, to make life more difficult for squishy Republicans.
     This is the third round of S. 2099 hysterics on the internet since Reed introduced it in February; each time diverting attention away from real problems."

GTS1096@aol.com wrote:

 This is real, very real.  Check out the US Senate web-site for yourselves.  Clinton is behind this one.  This type of law has a whole lot more to do  with than guns.

 " Gun owners beware!

 Senate Bill SB-2099 will require us to put on our 2000 1040 federal tax  form all guns that you have or own. It may require fingerprints and a tax  of $50 per gun.

 This bill was introduced on Feb. 24. This bill will become public knowledge  30 days after it is voted into law. This is an amendment to the Internal  Revenue Act of 1986. This means that the Finance Committee  can pass this without the Senate voting on it at all.

 The full text of the proposed amendment is on the U.S. Senate homepage,  http://www.senate.gov/ <http://www.senate.gov/>  You can find the bill by  doing a search by the bill number, SB-2099.

 You know who to call; I strongly suggest you do.  Please send a copy of
 this e-mail to every gun owner you know to help STOP this bill!! "

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