Posted on 12/29/2012 6:11:49 PM PST by 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."
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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
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
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?
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.
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.
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