There is a clear principle that you can’t tax a constitutionally-enumerated right. Ergo the federal excise tax on firearms an ammunition (11% on long guns and ammo; 10% on handguns) should never have passed constitutional muster. Why aren’t we turning the noise up to 11 on this? Did you think that tax stamp on every box of ammo you bought was free?
But the FET on firearms is paid by the wholesaler so there is no stamp and you never see it on the sales receipt. So much of what shooting stuff you buy is (at least) 10% more expensive than it should be because the Feds are lining their pockets at yours and the US Constitution’s expense.
That federal excise tax should have been repealed or challenged in SCOTUS ages ago.
https://www.ttb.gov/firearms/taxes-and-tax-exemptions
“The tax rates are 10% of the sale price of pistols and revolvers; 11% of the sale price of firearms other than pistols and revolvers, shells and cartridges. See 26 USC Section 4181(a); 27 CFR Section 53.61(a).”
I’ve seen Pittman-Robertson described as a tax that sportsmen and outdoorsmen wanted.