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Posted on 02/29/2020 8:02:47 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
Thursday, a public hearing was held at the Capitol over a proposal to tax ammunition by an additional 35%.
Nearly 50 people signed up to testify on this issue, and many spoke out against the proposal.
“I feel this just goes too far. They just keep nibbling and taking away, taking away,” said Skip Roberts of Higganum.
Recently retired, Roberts said he’s on a fixed income. He owns a gun to keep his family safe and estimates a day of practice at the range will cost him and his wife close to $100 more if the ammunition excise tax is approved.
“If they really want to prevent violence they would enforce the laws on the books now,” said Roberts.
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“I think we’re traveling down a very dangerous slope if we’re trying to punish somebody exercising their second amendment rights by raising the cost of something to make it unobtainable,” added Sen. Kevin Witkos, (R) Canton.
Gilchrest said her aim is not to deter people from legally owning a gun. She pointed to a congressional report that showed gun violence cost Connecticut taxpayers over $1 billion in 2019. She said that amounted to $333 a person. She argued that putting money toward prevention would save all taxpayers in the long run.
She was peppered with questions about why she seemed to be targeting gun owners instead of all taxpayers.
“Most criminal acts actually take place with a firearm which was once legally purchased. And so, yes law-abiding gun owners should pay a little more,” she answered.
“This is an important and creative piece of legislation that helps us do something that we haven’t been able to do for,” said Susan Vogel, a member of the Connecticut chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcconnecticut.com ...
The nearest sane state is Pennsylvania - will be good for their gun shops (of course we will stock up out of state, you’d have to me a moron to pay 35 cents extra a round).
Buy
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Ammo
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BLOAT
AND the payrolls & all the tax revenue went with those shops.
It's not. However, for the constitution to mean anything we have to have courts that will enforce it, which we currently don't have.
“The Supreme Court has already ruled that to be unconstitutional.”
Actually, the Constitution ruled it unconstitutional.
Amendment XXIV (Amendment 24 - Abolition of the Poll Tax Qualification in Federal Elections)
1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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“...2 cents per .22 and 5 cents for anything larger/center fire.”
Is that per box, or per round?
As I have said numerous times, the plan is to make gun ownership so expensive and so difficult that most will think it is too expensive and too much hassle.
Our 2a right is enumerated in the constitution AND we have a SCOTUS who should but doesn’t protect all of our rights.
WRONG!
You are holding law abiding gun owners accountable for the misdeeds and criminal actions of others they do not know.
That is WRONG.
Per round.
YIKES!
Glad I bought beacoup cases by the pallet load, via common carrier, at my nursery business, back in the mid-90s. 6 figures for 8 calibers.
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