[Myrddin]

There may be an unintended consequence lurking in this stupid "bullet tax". A box of 50 .44 Mag goes for $15. A box of 500 .22 goes for $10. Add the "bullet tax" and the .44 Mag costs $17.50. The brick of .22 goes for $35. The center fire rounds cost 17% more. The .22 costs 250% more. Perhaps this will fuel sales for more center fire handgun ammo. Exactly the opposite of what Perata thinks this stupid tax will accomplish. It should also be pointed out that this tax disproportionately affects the poor who only have enough disposable income to shoot .22.

Perata's continuing onslaught of anti-gun laws is one of many reasons I left California for Idaho. Many of my high tech colleagues like to shoot as well. I may yet have a means of encouraging the growth of a high tech sector in my little town in Idaho.

[Travis McGee]

You miss the point of the five cent tax: it will not remain at five cents for more than one year, and it will go up and up and up.

The true purpose is twofold: to eventually price ammunition out of existance, and make felons out of anyone who evades the law.

[Mulder]

There may be an unintended consequence lurking in this stupid "bullet tax". A box of 50 .44 Mag goes for $15. A box of 500 .22 goes for $10. Add the "bullet tax" and the .44 Mag costs $17.50. The brick of .22 goes for $35. The center fire rounds cost 17% more. The .22 costs 250% more. Perhaps this will fuel sales for more center fire handgun ammo.

Then they'll just come back for "round 2" and either raise the tax or base it as a percentage of the cost of the bullet. The tyrants will just keep pushing until they are finally told "no", one way or another.

Frederick Douglass summarized this situation well: “Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”