Senator Perata Proposes Nickle Tax on Bullets

KTVU/Fox2 News ^ | 3/28/02 | Randy Shandobil

[Travis McGee]

See number 42 for a preview of their mantra, which we will soon be bombarded with as the sheeple nod their sheep heads up and down with all the understanding of a ewe looking at her shepherd coming with his knife.

[gc4nra]

"If crime is not magically stopped after the nickel tax, (It won't be, and Perata knows it as well as we do), then it will be even easier to raise the existing tax to fifty cents or five dollars a bullet."

...and the Ungovernor will be happy to sign it!

Vote Bill Simon in November!

[Travis McGee]

Related thread today: KALI BILL MANDATES HOME INSPECTION OF ALL "ASSAULT WEAPONS".

[zog]

--I'd be willing to bet (a box of nickles) , that if any realistically accurate numbers/statistics are kept, that the vast majority of californian shootings are between black and latino and asian gang members. I'd also bet that if those stats were compared to just white people in general in the state, it would be over 5 to 1 discrepancy % per capita.

Of course this is now racist hate speech. Oh well.

[Husker24]

ssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

[Uncle George]

Believe me+++++++ The next tax will be on SEX.

[gc4nra]

"A million scoped deer rifles may agree some day."

They are not "deer rifles", they are "evil sniper rifles"!
You must not listen to UpChuckie Schummmer!

[Husker24]

I think that was Feinstein.

[nocommies]

well, time for more oral, because we know from one of our presidents, it isnt sex!

[Shooter 2.5]

"Taxes on bullets isn't a bad thing,"

Taxes on a Right is always a bad thing. Wake up.

[RightWhale]

One live bullet a year just to keep the eye. If it gets to the point of living as a mountainman and relying on the shooting iron for subsistence, I figure government and taxes will be minimal if they exist at all by then, and taxmen even scarcer. A bedroll and a rifle, all a man needs.

[river rat]

""Bullets cause injuries that are expensive to treat and generally speaking, the public is footing the bill."

Solution: STOP treating gang bangers and criminals - or anyone shot in the commission of a crime, unless their family foots the bill.

Please explain why the taxpayers should patch up the bastards shot in the commission of a crime - while probably living off welfare?

Semper Fi

[Robert357]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, as long as I can say it: every gun owner should buy a box of ammo for each gun he owns, every single month of the year.

For some of us, that wouldn't be nearly enough ammo!

Most weekends I go through 300 to 400 rounds of handgun ammo. I usually reload 100 rounds of 357, 100 rounds of 9mm, 100 rounds of 32 ACP and take 100 to 150 rounds of 22 ammo out of the bricks of 22 ammo I buy several at a time. Limiting me to a 50 round box of ammo a month would be withdrawal. Besides, I would have way to much time on my hands for things like lawnmowing and yard work.

Hmm, I have been thinking about casting my own lead bullets, though.........

[RS]

",i>Reload your ammo! Is he going to tax primers, powder, and projectiles?"

The short answer is ....YES

[RightWhale]

buying 22s in boxes of 500 could also claim that 100 rounds a Year is a reasonable usage rate

It's reasonable for what I do. About once every 5 years I buy a brick of 22s. I shoot them infrequently and just to eliminate any trace of hiccups that shooting the big bore pistols induces.

[gatex]

"...Taxes on bullets isn't a bad thing..."

Then you won't mind the one cent per word tax that has just been imposed on you---please send your monthly tax payments to Jim Robinson.

[patton]

Why not? Isn't that what has happened to smokes? Why not rounds, a gallon of gas, etc.

Actually, It would trip my trigger if every gallon of gas had the same tax as a pack of cigs.

[patton]

Sorry to laugh, but my 12-year-old goes through a brick of .22 a weekend.

[HangFire]

A nickle a bullet is not that much, however that is only half of the cost/benefit equation, Perata forgot about the benefits of gun ownership.

The way I see it with so many people using guns and bullets each year to defend themselves, (2.5 million times a year) thereby saving the taxpayer millions in medical cost, each bullet should come with a twenty five cent a bullet rebate!

[RightWhale]

12-year-old goes through a brick of .22 a weekend

That's exactly the right age for that. Somewhere around 12 years of age the reflexes become hard-wired in the brain. Just like playing the violin. After that, it is much more difficult to gain a motor skill to that level.