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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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State legislator in Connecticut. That's par for the course there.
The question you have to ask yourself is; which bullet is more deadly, a 22 caliber lead bullet, a 12 gauge slug, or a 30 06 full metal jacket at 10 feet?
Get hit by either one in a sweet spot and your dead meat.
Other than artillery, there is no such thing as “the deadliest ammo”.
According to the Supreme Court, they can do that. I wonder how long it will be before they raise the age that you can buy guns to 100?
LOL. People will just go elsewhere to buy it. And CT will lose the tax revenue.
I can just taste the arbitrage!
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There are two “problems” with gun violence in this country:
*Mass shootings by men racially proportionate to the population
*Gang shootings by black and Mexican men
The cost of ammo is going to do nothing to either of these groups.
There isn’t a single shooting that didn’t happen because a crack dealer couldn’t afford ammo.
He’d save lots more lives by taxing abortion.
I love how our side dismissed the Midterms as way short of a “blue wave”. I think the Midterm sh*tfest of Socialists and GOP know nothings is only the beginning.
I’m POSITIVE this is done in conjunction with nys legislation. They have been wanting to arrest people traveling through nys with “contraband” since Cuomo invented the sexy little phrase “iron pipeline” to describe the act of smuggling stuff from PA.
I was doing this for a time. Let me know if you want help.
I’d love to see them put a tax on STDs as a “pubic health measure”. Catch the clap, pay a fine.
Moving from CT to Texas next week. Can’t wait.
>>>”When we increase that tax, we’ve seen a reduction in use”<<<
The Rats are really showing their true colors this week aren’t they?
I always thought raising Taxes was the DemoncRats way to raise revenues to fund their Wet Dreams. Wrong again...
The state of Michigan's settlement against the tobacco industry in 1998 was $280 million per year for the next 26 years as compensation for past "damages" incurred through Medicaid and other state medical welfare payments to individuals with smoking-related illnesses......LOL!
Not one fricking cent went to those agencies..........!
As for the attorneys representing the state of Michigan, they received tens of millions of dollars for doing nothing because they simply used all information gathered by a southern attorney who started the first lawsuits against big tobacco.....
It was nothing but a shake down scam that the Mafia was accused of and arrested for.........
If I lived in Connecticut, I’d buy my ammo in New Hampshire or Vermont...I’m glad I left...
I hope the last thing you remember if you are the target of a no knock arrest or home invasion is this post.
The vast majority of gunshot victims in Connecticut were hit with a round bought out of a duffel bag from a car trunk, fired from an unlicensed, stolen weapon sold on the black market. And these legislators know this.
Pssst. I've been looking for "exploding bullets" for forever. Can you hook up a fellow Freeper to a source?
/s.
Drown yourself, Dumbass.
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