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Taxes or firearms
The National Revenue Agency (NRA) together with the police has started confiscating firearms of people who owed large amounts of overdue taxes, Bulgarian news agency Focus said on March 20 2009.
Such a measure is provided in the law and the NRA has decided to apply it as part of its campaign for collecting taxes. The NRA has the right to inform the police when people with firearms licenses owe large amounts of unpaid taxes. Police is the body in charge of registering legally-owned firearms and has the right to revoke it and collect firearms.
The first firearms have already been confiscated. Two pistols, one revolver and two shotguns have been collected from two businessmen from the resort town of Velingrad in central Bulgaria, Focus said. More people are expected to "lose" their firearms next week.
Such a measure is provided in the law and the NRA has decided to apply it as part of its campaign for collecting taxes. The NRA has the right to inform the police when people with firearms licenses owe large amounts of unpaid taxes. Police is the body in charge of registering legally-owned firearms and has the right to revoke it and collect firearms.
The first firearms have already been confiscated. Two pistols, one revolver and two shotguns have been collected from two businessmen from the resort town of Velingrad in central Bulgaria, Focus said. More people are expected to "lose" their firearms next week.
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Please tell me I'm not the only American who sees the irony of an agency called the NRA who's taking weapons AWAY from the public?
? how many unregistered fire arms are there in BG, probably more than are actually registered, and how many are under lock and key, a legal requirement, so kids cant get at them?
That's not a good way of trying to get money owed. I'm sure the person can find another gun to replace the one that was confiscated. So this will just result in more unregistered-illeagaly owned firearms.