[Paladin2]

Sounds like infringement.

Maybe they should put a tax on illegal gun carriers.

[Baynative]

Do street thugs send in the tax voluntarily after they steal a gun, trade for drugs or buy one in an alley?

[Paladin2]

"He said it would prompt people to purchase weapons elsewhere."

Revenue expectations unlikely to be met.

[Gaffer]

Just another reason to NOT live in an Urban city. They are decaying, death trap killing fields. Adding taxes for the luxury of being able to protect oneself is just the icing on the turd pie they want to feed lawful citizens.

I will be glad to see these places go.

[LauraJean]

I don’t think they will get that much money. I am within 10 minutes drive of two gun shops, Cabalas in Cook and Gat’s Guns in Kane. I predict that Gat’s Guns will be picking up more sales then Cabalas.

[mongo141]

It’s the usual poorly thought out Rat horse sh*t, the only people it effects are the honest citizens.

[Sooth2222]

Taxing guns for gun crime is like taxing forks because people are fat.

[Solson]

Good. Now it's our turn. WE are going to put a $25 tax on every news article published. You tax our freedom, we tax yours.

Next, we will limit the size of Starbucks containers to 1 ounce as they also cause obesity. After Starbucks, we're coming after hummus. Finally, we will tax ANY computers manufactured outside the US....computers defined as anything device requiring electricity and using a computing chip.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Next year it will be $50 and the year after that it will be $100 and the year after that...

[Oztrich Boy]

Peoples who hand over a gun in exchange to a $50 shopping vouncher are not going to be thrilled with that.

[DPMD]

To pay the health care costs for gun violence.

Right.

Pretty ironic coming from the birthplace of obamacare, which will, after all, require all gun owners to carry health insurance.

Didn’t Emanuel read the damn bill?

[Logical me]

The communists in this Country will tax us to death.

[Pilsner]

When we had some folks at Republican Party meetings crowing about the fact that the Texas Legislature had placed a head tax on everyone who set foot in a strip club, I made my self unpopular by stating that the government should not place punitive taxes on legal businesses, just because the business is unpopular with a majority of the Legislature. I said “wait until the Democrats win an election, and put a $10 tax on setting foot in a gun shop or gun show.”

[Pilsner]

When we had some folks at Republican Party meetings crowing about the fact that the Texas Legislature had placed a head tax on everyone who set foot in a strip club, I made my self unpopular by stating that the government should not place punitive taxes on legal businesses, just because the business is unpopular with a majority of the Legislature. I said “wait until the Democrats win an election, and put a $10 tax on setting foot in a gun shop or gun show.”

[Condor51]

The tax is expected to raise $600,000 in revenue in 2013. ~~~ Periwinkle said that 670 victims of gun violence had been treated by the county's health system last year. The average cost per patient was $52,000.

HUH? $52,000 x 670 = $34,840,000 - $600,000 = ($34,240,000)
And this tax is supposed to offset the County's cost? Someone flunked math.

[expat2]

Surely this is racist!
The white folk can go into the suburbs and get their guns, but the blacks not so easily. But then again, how many of the guns in the inner city are bought legally, anyway?

[ExCTCitizen]

Under the plan, Cook County, Ill., will impose a $25 tax on each firearm sold.

How about ILLEGAL GUN SALES?? Are they taxed??

[radioone]

$24.95 of that fee will disappear into the coffers of the “democrat machine”. Everybody will get their “taste”.

[Red in Blue PA]

Tax Hoodies!

[JoeFromSidney]

Isn't this akin to a poll tax to vote?