Bullet tax proposal is new twist in gun-control debate

gopusa.com ^ | December 29, 2012 | Stateline

[vet7279]

"The Hartford Courant reported last week that two Democratic legislators were proposing a new 50 percent tax on bullets as part of a broader gun-control bill. The Connecticut legislation is one sign that the gun-control debate that the shootings will prompt next year in statehouses around the country could morph into an ammunition-control debate, too."

[terycarl]

let’s see now, I decide to shoot up the local nursery school but the tax on bullets is very high. I need about 1,000 bullets, and at the end of my shoot-em up, I’m going to kill myself. I don’t have the cash for the ammunition so I guess I’ll have to put them on my credit card, tax and all. By Wednesday, I’ll be dead and I guess Mastercard will just have to live with it...too bad!!!.....and people actually think that a tax will deter anything.....pathetic

[terycarl]

let’s see now, I decide to shoot up the local nursery school but the tax on bullets is very high. I need about 1,000 bullets, and at the end of my shoot-em up, I’m going to kill myself. I don’t have the cash for the ammunition so I guess I’ll have to put them on my credit card, tax and all. By Wednesday, I’ll be dead and I guess Mastercard will just have to live with it...too bad!!!.....and people actually think that a tax will deter anything.....pathetic

[coloradan]

This makes perfect sense. Someone planning to use 100 rounds to kill 50 people at an elementary school, and then himself, will be thwarted by having the rounds cost $1.50 each, instead of a $1.00 each, when the gun and loaded magazines are stolen, but this will have no effect on law-abiding citizens who shoot 100 rounds a week, every week, to retain their skills. Yep, this measure is carefully crafted to do *just* what it was supposed to do, without any unintended consequences.

Say, isn’t there a book of the same name?

[ZULU]

Not new. That pompous, verbose, over-rated fat clown Daniel Patrick Moynahan (Spelling?) from New York proposed the very same thing.

Liberal idiots are inventive if not logical.

[fireman15]

But what if I make my own bullets?

I always wonder about that. I have several reloading presses; I can easily put together thousands of cartridges in a day on either a progressive or turret press.

I suppose they would try to tax primers and possibly brass, powder, and manufactured bullets. I cast my own bullets. I reuse my brass. I have heard that it is a lot of trouble and I have never tried it, but primers can be reused. I have read discussions about making powder. If the authorities try to tax ammo out of existence... creative individuals will find a way to get around it.