The push to drive down civilian gun ownership in coastal states via onerous regulation and confiscatory taxes took another small step forward yesterday with the introduction of HB 5700 in Connecticut. State Rep. Jillian Gilchrest, one of the co-sponsors of the tax hike, is proud as can be of her bill and announced it via […]
Reader John Dingell III writes: From Click On Detroit: “This is the city of Detroit, we continue to beat Los Angeles every year with the number of homicides, in senseless gun violence,” said Wayne County Commissioner Reggie Davis. Davis calls his resolution “the bullet bill.” The resolution requires a mental health background on purchasers of ammunition in Wayne […]
Why mess around with California’s capitulation when it comes to restricting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans? Face it, the Golden State’s new requirement for background checks before you can purchase ammunition is for gun-controlling wimps. No true gun-grabber would settle for such half measures. A Detroit politician has a much better idea; don’t […]
Cook County, Illinois has had a $25 per firearm tax on gun sales since 2013. In 21016, they imposed a tax on ammunition sales, too. Because guns. As our John Boch was quoted at the time, “The gun tax is nothing more than a modern day poll tax against the poor,” John Boch, executive director of […]
