Another bite at the bullet tax, or where do they find these clowns?

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aarondhgraham

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Riverside California already tried this,,,

Back in 1995 they tied to impose a huge tax on ammunition,,,
Someone took them to court about it.

The tax never got levied.

Aarond
 
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csmsss

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It's a meaningless statement. Even if he were amble to somehow get such a tax imposed, it would be ludicrously simple to get around it by leaving Bafltimore City and nuying ammo in one of the neighboring counties.
 
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wogpotter

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So this is going to work the same way that taxing alcohol reduced drinking & taxing tobacco reduced smoking?

Things you won't hear on the streets of Balmer because of this :

" I wuz gonna cap yo azz fer strayin onto my turf, but I can't spring the bucks fer boolitt tips now so run mofo, run!":eek::eek:

C'mon Candidate Rolley, no-one is falling for this, the poll in the article is running Yes 195 votes 4% No 4527 votes 96%
What a moroon.
 
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LockedBreech

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After McDonald and Heller, I think such a tax could run into Constitutional troubles. Recall the Federal court that overturned Chicago's ban on gun ranges? The court said that practicing with a gun is integral to owning one, so that wasn't constitutional. Bullets are needed for such practice, and paying godawful obscene amounts of money per bullet grinds up against the SCOTUS ruling and puts such a tax under heightened scrutiny.
 
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Sefner

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csmsss said:
It's a meaningless statement. Even if he were amble to somehow get such a tax imposed, it would be ludicrously simple to get around it by leaving Bafltimore City and nuying ammo in one of the neighboring counties.
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This is what I first thought when I read it. He's not serious, he's just pandering. To who I don't really know, but now that this story is on Drudge he's going to have a fun time trying to explain it.

I was surprised at this part, though:

"Increasing the cost of guns won't work, because many criminals don't purchase new guns, and they can be borrowed or even rented in some areas," his plan states.
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First, where can you rent a gun and take it out in public? Second, he applies some great logic in that criminals do not buy guns, they steal or borrow them. But why does he stop there and not apply it to ammunition? Criminals can steal or borrow ammo just as easily, if not more easily (no penalty for possession of ammunition) than guns...
 
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SHNOMIDO

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"guns...can be...rented in some areas"

Uh...what? Forgive me if this is common in other areas but here in IL, and I've also spent time in TN and TX, I've never heard of a problem where a criminal used a "rented gun". What does this even mean? Out of that whole article i found this to be the most ignorant thing in it. Implying around the corner from the car rental place is the gun rental place, where you can plop down $20 and rent a pistol for the afternoon.

No wonder crime is so bad in major cities, they need to shut down the gun rental stores...
 
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Eghad

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Did it ever occur to the Mayor that by punishing criminals and felons who misuse guns he might reduce gun crime?

By taxing a box of bullets $1.00 he is only punishing the law abiding folks who buy them.

We had a local thug shoot into a crowd of people and was eventually stopped by the police. he got 8 years in the federal pen on top on top of his other crimes by being a felon in posession of a firearm.
 
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chasep255

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Say a box of 9mm costs $15. Now it costs $16. If I'm a criminal I won't be using those bullets too often since I don't go to the range for target practice. So the extra 2 cents per shot probably doesn't matter to me. Actually as a target shooter the extra dollar wouldn't bother me to much either except for the fact that some a**hole politician is making me pay it.
 
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Davey

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Does this guy really think he can make a $16 dollar box of 500+ count of .22LR cost over $500?

I wonder what he would consider to be actually futile.
 
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maestro pistolero

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Now that Ezell has gone down the road of designating that peripheral 2A behavior and items (like firing ranges) get elevated scrutiny like the 1A, we can only hope this passes. They will hear the sound of him being dope-slapped by the courts from Delaware.
 
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Eghad

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Its a no brainer.. you can put a $1,000 dollar a tax on a box of bullets it is not going to stop criminals from getting them. The sales would be through illicit markets just like drugs are now for the criminals. The candidate has removed all doubt of his stupidity and pandering for votes now.

After reading his facebook page he will probably keep silent on the issue again.
 
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teeroux

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What will it be next $1,000 tax to vote?

It would stand to reason if politicians could get one right taxed so could they the others.
 
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Webleymkv

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I wonder if his tax would make a box of ammo any more expensive than a kilo of cocaine (I don't use drugs, so I don't know what the going rate for them is)? Afterall, the price of cocaine doesn't seem to deter the criminal element from using it. Perhaps a better idea would be to institute a $10,000 fine every time a politician proposes something idiotic.
 
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Tom Servo

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After McDonald and Heller, I think such a tax could run into Constitutional troubles.
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You're correct. The Supreme Court has ruled before that special taxes on newspapers violate the exercise of the 1st Amendment. In the current legal climate, it's very possible they'd rule the same way on an ammunition tax.

The situation also opens the door for challenging the NFA on similar grounds, though I think we're a few years out from that.
 
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