Posted on 11/07/2021 8:37:29 AM PST by rktman
The Illinois county that's home to Chicago is going to make legal gun owners pay for the crimes of illegal gun owners, regardless of what any court might say.
Cook County slapped a tax on guns in 2012 and added ammunition to the tax in 2015, according to Fox News. The tax was $25 per gun, with centerfire ammunition taxed at 5 cents per round and rimfire ammo at one cent per round, according to Fox.
An Oct. 21 Illinois Supreme Court ruling, written by Justice Mary Jane Theis, found the tax was unconstitutional and a violation of the Second Amendment.
But last week, the Cook County Board of Commissioners voted 12-2 to reinstate the tax, claiming that all revenue would go to gun violence prevention.
In the October ruling, Theis wrote that there was no way it was constitutional unless it supported a “substantially related” cause, according to the Chicago Tribune.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
yeah and they treat that nonexistant fake right as being absolute
Seattle within the Soviet of Washington imposed such a tax a number of years ago. They succeeded in driving every gun shop in the City to outside the city as well as ammunition sales.
The gun shops for the most part did not go away, they just moved. But then again, modern Democratic Party politics is not about substance, it is about the illusion of politicians appearing to do something.
“Odds of that happening are close to zero.”
Of course...
Illinois Circus Elephant Governor JB Priztker and AG Kwame Raoul have said many times that they will not follow any court orders.
Several Illinois County Courts have ruled against Putzker on the Mask Mandate, Business Lockdowns, etc. The Governor ignores all of the rulings and nothing happens to him.
The Department of Justice is concerning itself with Biden’s daughter’s diary which she lost somewhere and not with people like this blantantly defying court orders. If Donald Trunp were President, the DOJ would be persueing this and not that.
Rule of law? What’s that? Some sort of White Folks BS?
Because it's working so well now?
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