Corbins.com and wheel weights will make that nickle tax on each round of 22 long rifle pay for your .224 caliber bullets for the 5.56mm ammo you'll need also. Normally californicator polidiots don't run a 2 fer one sale ?!?!
Stay Safe Ern !
Posted on 04/11/2002 9:11:36 PM PDT by Redcloak
California Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. 271 East Imperial Highway Fullerton, California 92835
For Immediate Release: April 12, 2002 For Additional Information Contact: Chuck Michel (310) 548-3703 (cell: (310) 722-1324)
CRPA CALLS FOR 25 ¢ PER ROUND AMMUNITION TAX CREDIT
RESPONDS TO GUN BAN LOBBY'S 5¢ / ROUND TAX PROPOSAL
The California Rifle and Pistol Association (CRPA) today called for a tax credit for California gun owners. The tax credit would reimburse gun owners for the social value of firearm ownership, which causes dramatic reductions in, and serves as a tremendous deterrent to, crime and violence. No less than 16 separate studies confirm that firearms are used five times more often to thwart crime than to commit one. The studies found that on average, firearms are used to defend lives two million times per year – usually without a shot being fired.
The FBI has confirmed that over 99% of firearms in the United States are never misused in crime. But California Senator Don Perata has called for a tax of five cents per round of ammunition to offset the cost of gun violence. He plans a press conference today to announce his tax scheme. It may have already been modified in response to nationwide ridicule of his original proposal. Regardless, any tax is elitist and discriminatory, and would be borne disproportionately by competitive target shooters and by the poor, who can least afford it, but who are most often victimized by violent crime – and who most need a gun to deter criminals and to defend themselves and their families.
"CRPA believes this proposal is ridiculous. But if Boy Scouts earning a shooting merit badge should pay a tax for the actions of a gang banger shooting a liquor store clerk, then why shouldn't law abiding gun owners get a tax credit for the tremendous public benefit their firearms provide?" asked Chuck Michel, CRPA's attorney. "That tax credit should be five times the amount of the gun ban lobby's tax proposal, since the savings from crimes thwarted by firearms are at least five time greater than the cost of the misuse of firearms."
Senator Perata knows from working closely with the gun ban lobby that the power to tax is the power to destroy. In the past, Perata has pushed other efforts to eliminate the right to choose to own a gun. In 1999, he authored a bill that turned Olympic target pistols into "assault weapons" and turned junior Olympic competitors into felons. When this was brought to his attention, the San Diego Union Tribune reported his unsympathetic response: "If that's what they want to do, they should all move to Texas." Red faced legislators fixed the problem the next year, with no help from Perata. Perata's hypocracy is also illustrated by the fact that he holds a practically impossible to get license to carry a concealed handgun, but did not demonstrate the "good cause" that others are required to document before being granted such a license. (See www.nrawinningteam.com/calnra/perata).
Ironically, the ineffectiveness of these types of proposals is well illustrated by the recent experiences of the City of Oakland, Perata's home town. For years, the Oakland city council passed every ill-conceived gun control scheme that was suggested. In fact, Oakland taxed ammunition sales so heavily that gun dealers in the city went out of business. Oakland even sued the gun industry, in a frivolous attempt to assign the blame for its violence problems to one of the most heavily regulated businesses in the state. These tried-and-failed schemes did not reduce crime or gun accidents. Oakland's murder rate remained inexcusably high. Finally, as reported by the Associated Press and San Francisco Chronicle on August 28, 2001, Oakland city officials turned to none other than the CRPA and the NRA for help, seeking expertise and funding to advertise the city's commitment to enforce already tough existing state and federal laws against violent felons and emulate the success of other jurisdictions in reducing violence. # # #
Get to the airport early Don, the lines are long. Security you know.
Oh by the way, you can't take your gun, even with your CA CCW.
Have a nice exile.
Corbins.com and wheel weights will make that nickle tax on each round of 22 long rifle pay for your .224 caliber bullets for the 5.56mm ammo you'll need also. Normally californicator polidiots don't run a 2 fer one sale ?!?!
Stay Safe Ern !
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