Emily Miller of the Washington Times wrote this article, "New taxes penalize gun owners, threaten Second Amendment". It covers some of the topics and creative attacks on our 2nd Amendment rights that I've commented on in the past but also has 1 or 2 I wasn't aware of.
The Good:
* introduced legislation on June 13 that would make it illegal for states and municipalities to raise taxes or fees on firearms and ammunition
* would also prevent raising taxes in order to pay for background checks
The Bad:
* Chicago started the movement late last year by enacting a $25 tax on new firearm purchases
* In February, Rep. Linda T. Sanchez, California Democrat, and 26 of the most uber-liberals in the House introduced a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code to create an excise tax of 10 percent on any concealable gun in order to empower Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to establish a firearms buy-back grant program.
* Massachusetts is considering a 25 percent excise tax on all firearms, ammunition and parts as part of its overall gun-control agenda.
* Nevada Assembly is moving on a bill to impose a $25 tax on each gun and 2 cents for each round of ammunition sold by a dealer.
* Connecticut legislators proposed this year a 50-cent sales tax on ammunition.
* Washington state is considering a proposal to tax every firearm sold at retail at $25 (lowered to $15 if the buyer springs for a gun safe or gun lock) and 1 cent on each round of ammunition.
* Maryland and Connecticut, both of which are proposing raising taxes on ammunition by 50 percent. Alcohol, which is not guaranteed by the Constitution but leads to more deaths than firearms, is the only other item in the Free State that is taxed higher than the 6 percent sales tax, but it is only 9 percent.
* A bill introduced in New Jersey proposes a 7 percent levy on ammunition sales.
* The California Assembly is considering a bill to impose a 5-cent-per-round levy on retailers for “the privilege of selling ammunition.”
"The Constitution says ‘shall not infringe’." "When you place this outrageous tax on the sale of ammunition and firearms, it’s intended to curtail those rights." Yes, it does and, yes, it is.
"These costly measures disproportionately affect lower-income people, who often live in higher-crime areas. Along with other costly mandates, such as maintaining liability insurance, these restrictions would likely be overturned as unconstitutional by the courts.
“This is no different than a poll tax — but on the Second Amendment." " Yep.
"These anti-gun politicians are clearly trying to unduly burden the exercise of the Second Amendment by pricing firearms and ammunition out of reach of many law-abiding Americans." No doubt.
Is there any doubt that there is a serious attack on our 2nd Amendment rights or about how serious and widespread it is? Gun control advocates are pushing their anti-gun agenda far, far beyond the limits of "common sense" or "reason".
Those gun buy-back programs they want firearms owners to fund... they serve no practical purpose whatsoever. The numbers are small. The people turning in firearms are not criminals. They're not removing guns from the "streets", they're removing them from circulation. Most have never been used in crime or ever would be. People who own firearms and don't want them any more can always sell them or, if they don't want them in circulation, drop them off at their local police department. There's no reason to incentivize them with public funds or by burdening gun owners, except to punish gun owners for exercising their constitutional right.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/25/taxing-the-second-amendment/
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