[Para-Ord.45]

Think his title question was rhetorical ?

[BitWielder1]

Or force every gun owner to buy gun liability insurance or pay a Pax (Penalty/Tax).

[SoFloFreeper]

I wish several dozen Democrats WOULD PROPOSE this....it’ll make for easy Republican pickups next election. :)

[mick]

The Feds already require a $200 BATF Tax Stamp to buy an automatic weapon. Nothing about raising revenue about this...it is pure and simple a behavior modification ruse to find out who owns machine guns. And this was passed during in the 1930’s and never challenged because they called it a tax. What’s the difference?

[cuban leaf]

I wonder if we will see another spike in gun and ammo sales.

[Fred Hayek]

I remember that clunker from Moynihan, along with anything over 500 rounds is an arsenal.

500 rounds is a good day at the range!

Moynihan really started drinking the Kool Aid after 1990. Leftist dementia?

[The Duke]

They sure can. And worthless, corrupt politicians can get UN-ELECTED too.

Bring it on!

[Jack Hydrazine]

We have already seen doctors asking their patients if they own any firearms. Watch what happens under collectivist deathcare.

[IMR 4350]

IIRC a left wing loon state or city tried to tax ammo around 300% and it was struck down without even getting to SCOTUS as violating the 2ND as an infringement.

The ruling means you can force people to buy a gun and ammo or pay a tax.

[Lurker]

Apparently Roberts never read Bailey v Drexel

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[cripplecreek]

I don’t know why not. In 09 the tax on loose cigarette tobacco rose by 2300%.

As far as I’m concerned we should pass all the taxes imposed directly on to a consumer paid sales tax at the point of retail sale. After all, the consumer is already paying all the taxes imposed on the manufacturers anyway. Might as well let the consumer see the taxes they’re paying all the way down the line.

[SampleMan]

Or... abortions, newspapers, movies, porn, college tuition, ect.

Of course, we can provide waivers to who we see fit, just like Obama does.

The air has the feeling of 1859 to it.

[fwdude]

Then, it would be time to bring back the bow and the sword.

[History Repeats]

Didn’t Pat Moynahan (sp?) propose that back in the 1990s?

His idea was to tax ammo so high that people couldn’t afford it.

Don’t bet that this can’t or won’t be on their minds.

[crosshairs]

If they do, lets give them our ammo. From the business end.

[moovova]

As long as they don’t charge the tax...retroactively. ;~)

[WKUHilltopper]

They can tax anything they want now. You’ll be paying property tax out of the ying-yang for your firearms—if you can afford it. They found the golden key.

[GregoTX]

Once the government carries people either by subsidies for private insurance or they become the single payer plan, then it will happen.

Anything that the government says is a "health risk", they will tax it sky high. The government will say you have the freedom to buy ice cream, tobacco, or ammunition, but because of the "health risks" associated with it, it will have such high taxes with it that it will become unaffordable.

They can easily call a box of ammo a heath risk, and since they pay for health costs, they need to tax it higher. They will say that the people that practice unhealthy lifestyles must pay a higher tax than those that lead a healthy lifestyle.

The tax percentage on ammunition will probably be much higher than the percentage they put on tobacco. The percentage will match their hatred for it.

[andy58-in-nh]

I think we have now established that the Federal government can pretty much tax whatever the hell it wants to tax, because it now freely ignores restrictions on its power as imposed by Constitutional enumeration. The government cannot force you to buy something, but it can tax you if you do, or if you do not.

But I am relatively certain that if the cost of a box of, say, .45ACP ammunition suddenly went from $19.95 to $1,995.00, those responsible would eventually see a great deal of such ammunition. But not in the stores.

[stylin19a]

yep...but only if you have ammo inside you, inserted by outside force, and you visit a hospital for said ammo to be removed and you have no insurance.

[Dead Corpse]

They can try, but it’d be a silly way for them to commit suicide.