National Dangerous New Threat to Gun Ownership: ‘Gun Violence Taxes’

[Joe Link]

Despite a pro-gun rights President in the White House and Republicans in control of Congress, gun owners face a new and dangerous threat at the state and local level—a "gun violence tax."

Thanks to a tortured ruling by the Washington State Supreme Court, the gun prohibition lobby has reloaded to use this tax for an assault on gun ownership.

On August 10 Washington's high court sided with the City of Seattle, which adopted a "gun violence tax" in a strategy to slither around the state preemption law that placed exclusive authority for regulating firearms in the hands of the State Legislature. And this new scheme could be coming to any city that has an anti-gun rights Mayor and City Council.

In Seattle's case, the tax is $25 on the sale of each firearm, plus two to five cents for each round of ammunition sold. This threat takes on even more sinister dimensions when one considers the potential for cities to simply up the fee. Seattle started with $25 per gun, but what if they want to raise that to $100, $500 or even $1,000?

Dangerous New Threat to Gun Ownership: 'Gun Violence Taxes' - Breitbart

Read More

 

[USMC-03]

More laws, less lawfulness to paraphrase Cicero.

 

[MasterChief]

$0.02-5 a round on top of......

 

[albin25]

If they were going to levy heavy taxes on those who are convicted of violent crimes maybe I could see it being useful ... convicted of armed robbery nets mandatory prison time and a tax of $50k it might do some good.

But a tax on the innocent to pay for the crimes of the guilty is just felony stupid.

It would be sorta like if some jurisdictions started putting punitive social engineering taxes on snacks and sodas because some people are getting too fat and..ummm...errr.... uhhh.. oh, never mind

 

[nammac]

You know what happened last time there was taxation without representation...

Just saying...

Those who deny, ignore or try to put history in storage, are destined to repeat it...

 

[GOG]

I don't know about Washington, but we're trying to recall Kate Brown here in Oregon. These people are so far beyond the Constitution that it's intolerable.

 

[ob1]

You know what happened last time there was taxation without representation...

Just saying...

Do socialists float ?

 

[Roop]

Do socialists float ?

Like this?

Just the first thing that sprung to mind, lol!

 

[Goosebrown]

Do socialists float ?

Hope not.

 

[Howard1955]

 

[rupey7]

Government for the sake of government rather than for the sake of the people it's supposed to serve, that's what I see! They will never have enough money or control to be content! Government is like a giant octopus whose tentacles grab for everything within it's reach.