Posted on 02/05/2019 3:10:14 PM PST by jazusamo
A Democratic Connecticut state legislator introduced a bill on Monday that would raise the tax on ammunition in the state by 50 percent, prompting an immediate condemnation by the National Rifle Association (NRA) and concerns from legal observers that the legislation would be unconstitutional.
In a video uploaded to Twitter, Rep. Jillian Gilchrest, a freshman legislator from Hartford, said that a companion bill was being introduced in the state Senate by fellow freshman Democrat Will Haskell. (Haskell, at age 22, became Connecticut's youngest-ever elected legislator last year.)
"Currently, ammunition is taxed at the same rate as other products, but we want to increase it by 50 percent, because we see it as a prevention measure," Gilchrest says in the video. "For example, if someone were to buy a 50 cartridge box of ammunition, which goes for about $10, it would increase the price to $15."
Gilchrest goes on to explain that military and law enforcement members would be exempted from the tax, although those exemptions do not appear in an initial draft of the bill posted to the Connecticut state legislature's website.
"We see this as a public health measure, similar to what we've done in the state of Connecticut with increasing the tax on cigarettes," Gilchrest said. "When we increase that tax, we've seen a reduction in use."
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Like I said...
The lone GOP candidate is currently huddled somewhere, with Kevlar Testicle Protector firmly in place, rocking in the corner and sucking his thumb, feverishly hoping he doesn’t get called “racist” or some other really really really REALLY bad name...
‘Cause, like, you know... that would be REALLY scary.
50% tax on Public School teachers.
Tax exemption on Private School teachers.
Buy your lifetime supply of ammunition.
When it is taxed at 50%, you made a huge profit.
The state had some voting fraud...at 8pm...the time polls are supposed to close, the Dems were signing up Yale and UConn students (you were supposed to register in mid October). With the election being fraudulent, it was close...
Thanks, so the Dem voter fraud machine was out in force, that figures.
The 2nd Amendment is the underlying support for all of the others. The only reason (IMHO) that the RKBA isn’t the 1st Amendment is because the Founding Fathers were gentlemanly enough to warn you (hence, free speech) before they shot you. The 2nd Amendment must be protected at all costs from any form of attack. This includes free access to ammunition. If you do not fully support that God given right then you need to step back and take a hard look at your political beliefs.
I suspect that they have relatives or others not directly involved with the gangs buying the ammo for them. Ammo purchases aren’t tracked as closely as those of actual firearms.
That’s a great post. Thanks. The America we knew is heading towards extinction and we elected the man who is our last hope. He could have done it easily if not for the treasonous Republicans. Now, it’s the hard way and thank God we have even one man fighting for us.
When you say free access to ammo, are you talking the same as free access to clean needles for junkies or is your access actually limited to those who can afford bullets which would mean access is not completely free after all?
Are you entirely comfortable with Santa Fe HS and Sutherland Springs massacres as the price for such freedoms? If so, maybe you’re the one who needs to step back and let the adults discuss this.
Dumb somb*tch needs a history refresher.
It looks like someone made a wrong turn and ended up here instead of the DUmp.
Like Massachusetts, Connecticut resorts to a scam to make up laws that can’t be passed.
Connecticut a tax on ammunition, Massachusetts by phony-baloney law regarding which firearms are ‘safe’
It’s all quasi-legal bullsh*t brought on by lawmakers who have no regard for the law.
Folks in N.Y. and N.J. go to New Hampshire to get their booze then return home so as to avoid high taxes on vice in said states.
Ya think there won’t be a line of folks going to New Hampshire for their ammo?
Needles for junkies are not in the BOR. Firearms are. Since firearms are useless without ammunition, the access to same must be protected under the 2nd Amendment. And acts of violence are a fact of life. I’ve yet to meet anyone who is “comfortable” with them.
Interestingly enough, the sites in the types of shootings you reference were gun free zones. You comfortable with that? If ammunition is restricted or made prohibitively expensive and someone dies is it just too damn bad in your book?
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