California Gun Owners face $0.10 Tax on each round of ammo.

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[Varmint Al]

CA Gun Owners.. Help Defeat this!!

Ten Cent Ammo Tax on Every Piece of Ammunition
AB 992 was voted on by the Assembly Public Safety Committee on April 8th and passed 5 to 2! The next committee hearing is scheduled for April 29th in the Assembly Health Committee. Your letters of opposition are needed NOW!, Click here for a sample letter, committee list, and more.

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[Varmint Al]

As of Feb 20, 2003 this is what the bill read. I have heard that it has been amended. Can anyone find the current text of the bill? CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—2003–04 REGULAR SESSION
ASSEMBLY BILL No. 992
Introduced by Assembly Member Ridley-Thomas
February 20, 2003
An act to add Chapter 2.8 (commencing with Section 12330) to Title
2 of Part 4 of the Penal Code, relating to ammunition, and making an
appropriation therefor.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST
AB 992, as introduced, Ridley-Thomas. Ammunition: Trauma
Center Fund.
Existing law generally regulates the sale of ammunition.
This bill would impose a fee of 10¢ on every munition, as defined,
sold at retail. The fees would be paid to the State Board of Equalization,
and deposited in the Trauma Center Fund, a continuously appropriated
fund that would be established by the bill. The Trauma Center Fund
would be used to reimburse emergency services providers for the costs
of treating gunshot wounds and injuries, as specified. The funds in the
Trauma Center Fund would be allocated by the Emergency Medical
Services Authority to the medical providers by a specified formula.
By establishing a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would
make an appropriation.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Chapter 2.8 (commencing with Section 12330)
is added to Title 2 of Part 4 of the Penal Code, to read:
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CHAPTER 2.8. FIREARMS-RELATED EMERGENCY SERVICES
REIMBURSEMENT
12330. (a) There shall be imposed a fee upon all munitions
sold at retail at the rate of 10 cents ($0.10) for each munition sold
at retail in this state on or after January 1, 2004.
(b) The fees imposed by this section shall be administered and
enforced by the State Board of Equalization.
(c) For purposes of this section, ‘‘munition’’ means a projectile
with its fuse, propelling charge, or primer fired from a weapon, or
any of the individual components thereof. ‘‘Munition’’ does not
include a BB or a pellet commonly used in an air rifle or pistol.
(d) The fee provided for in this section may not be imposed
upon any munition purchased by any peace officer required to
carry a firearm while on duty, or by any governmental law
enforcement agency employing that officer.
(e) All amounts required to be paid to the state under this
section shall be paid to the State Board of Equalization in the form
of remittances that are payable to that board and are separate from
the remittance of any other fee. The board shall transmit the
payments to the Treasurer to be deposited in the State Treasury to
the credit of the Trauma Center Fund, which is hereby created.
(f) Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code,
the Trauma Center Fund is continuously appropriated, without
regard to fiscal years, as follows:
(1) To the State Board of Equalization for both of the
following:
(A) To pay for the board’s cost of implementation and
administration of this section, which cost in any fiscal year may not
exceed 10 percent of the total amount of moneys deposited in the
fund in that fiscal year.
(B) To pay refunds in accordance with this section.
(2) The balance to the Emergency Medical Services Authority
for allocation, once each fiscal year, to local emergency medical
service agencies to support hospital emergency departments and
certified trauma centers in delivering trauma care. The authority
shall allocate these moneys to these agencies pursuant to written
guidelines adopted by the authority, which guidelines shall utilize
the following criteria:
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(A) The number of victims of gunshot wounds treated by
hospital emergency departments and certified trauma centers in
the area served by the agency in proportion to the number of
victims of gunshot wounds treated by all hospital emergency
departments and certified trauma centers in the state in the fiscal
year immediately preceding the allocation.
(B) The incidence of gun violence in the area served by the
agency in proportion to the incidence of gun violence in the state
in the fiscal year immediately preceding the allocation.
(C) The approved emergency service plan and trauma care plan
of the agency.
(D) The proportion of the state’s population that lived in the
area served by the agency in the fiscal year immediately preceding
the allocation.
(E) Any other criteria deemed by the authority to further the
objectives of this subdivision.
(3) Each local emergency medical service agency shall, once
each fiscal year, allocate the moneys it receives pursuant to
paragraph (2) to hospital emergency departments or certified
trauma centers in the area served by the agency. The amount to be
allocated to a hospital emergency department or certified trauma
center shall be determined by the authority pursuant to written
guidelines adopted by the authority, which guidelines shall utilize
the following criteria:
(A) The number of victims of gunshot wounds treated by the
hospital emergency department or certified trauma center in
proportion to the number of victims of gunshot wounds treated by
all emergency departments and certified trauma centers in the area
served by the agency in the fiscal year immediately preceding the
allocation.
(B) The location of hospital emergency departments and
certified trauma centers as specified in the approved emergency
service plan and trauma care plan of the agency.
(C) Any other criteria deemed by the authority to further the
objectives of this subdivision.
(g) The Board of Equalization and the Emergency Medical
Services Authority shall adopt regulations necessary to implement
this chapter.

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Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
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[xusafflyer]

Tax all you want California. We're leaving this state for good. Keep pushing all the people that have money out of the state.

[golder]

I have heard that the ammo you already have on hand will be subject to the "use" fee.

How would they enforce that? How much tax is presently generated by ammo? I say, pass the dime tax. How hard is it to purchase ammo from alternate sources? My point, same as tobacco, the state will ultimately loose revenue. A small price to pay, to watch the collapse of this state government. Watching government twist in the wind over disappearing revenue is becoming a wonderful spectator sport.

[Tailback]

Internet ammo sales will skyrocket.

[Nix 2]

When I lived in CA, you could buy anything you wanted in any parking lot out of the trunk of someone's car, including their grandmothers for a nickle. 'Course they gotta know ya.....or at least think they do.

[Varmint Al]

How would they enforce that? How much tax is presently generated by ammo? I say, pass the dime tax. How hard is it to purchase ammo from alternate sources? My point, same as tobacco, the state will ultimately loose revenue. A small price to pay, to watch the collapse of this state government. Watching government twist in the wind over disappearing revenue is becoming a wonderful spectator sport.

That is not an option. Ammo dealers follow the law. They would have to collect the Fee before they could sell the ammo to California customers.

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

[absalom01]

"Can anyone find the current text of the bill?"

Sure. Go here: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/bilinfo.html

Enter the bill number, in this case 992, and the house, in this case the assembly. You can see the full history, current version, and current disposition.

[Varmint Al]

Thanks absalom01

Documents associated with AB 992 in the 2003-2004 Session

Status

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History

- 04/29/2003   1514 bytes

Bill Text

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Amended

- 04/22/2003

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Introduced

- 02/20/2003

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Analyses

Assembly Committee

- 04/07/2003 - 14662 bytes

Votes

Assembly Committee

- 04/08/2003 - 931 bytes

[boris]

You can buy over the internet or by phone, fax, mail, carrier pigeon, smoke signal, and CA cannot tax it (yet).

The real purpose is to take another step toward driving gun dealers out of business--because they sell ammo, too.

Try Cascade Ammunition

--Boris

[boris]

"Once they've run the local shops down, they'll make it illegal to buy the stuff over the internet."

Interestingly, the first time CA tried this tax, by pure coincidence a Dem congressman introduced legislation that said you must appear in person to purchase ammunition. Effectively outlawing interstate sales of ammo. Both laws died then but it is only a matter of time.

BLOAT!

--Boris

[TheAngryClam]

I make it about once a month, and usually shoot around 250 rounds of .45 with my pistol, although if I'm feeling cheap I'll rent one of the range 9x19s.

[Tailback]

Oh really? How many companies collect sales tax on out of state sales? How many Indian internet cigarrette shippers collect NY state cigarrette tax for NY? This will be a boon for internet ammo and reloading component sales, and California once again will drive legal businesses out of state and lose more and more tax revenue.

[golder]

That is not an option. Ammo dealers follow the law. They would have to collect the Fee before they could sell the ammo to California customers.

Was I not clear? Purchase no ammo in California.

[backhoe]

Then there's this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/905171/posts
48 Hours in the California Legislative System (A Descent into Madness
Keep and Bear Arms ^ | May 3, 2003 | Michael Marks
...there will be a mass exodus. Currently they're busy attacking businesses large and small, not just firearms.

[Eala]

Tax all you want California. We're leaving this state for good. Keep pushing all the people that have money out of the state.

Congratulations. I did that 20 years ago. Unfortunately I wound up in The Peoples' Republic of Washington, also known as The Evergreed $tate. Still better than California, though...

[snooker]

" ... Handloading could become very popular."

Not really. They will need a new bureau to monitor the ranges to see if the bullet has a tax stamp affixed. There will be illicit trade in counterfiet bullet tax stamps. Someone needs to monitor, track down. and prosecute the offenders. Probably take about 30,000 new employees.

So just pay the tax at Walmart and be happy. Or move out of state like I did.

[hedgetrimmer]

Stand up for your fellow citizens. Not everyone has the internet.

Its so hard to get people involved, and California really really needs to start standing up to that awful group that calls themselves legislators in Sacramento.

[hedgetrimmer]

Pretty soon there will be no where else to go. Fleeing to the countryside to escape the plague doesn't help if you have fleas in the blankets you brought with you.

[FreedomCalls]

Oh, that exception? It's for 'peace officers'.

But the military are not excepted? If not, this spells the end of military bases in California. It will make the next BRAC so easy. Thanks Gov Davis!