MD ammunition tax bill: .05$ a round

[Novus Collectus]

Originally Posted by bcp

did you complain about the 2 dollars per pack tax on cigarettes?
thats .10 per smoke.

No I didn't because it actually helped me keep from smoking again. However I never in memory endorsed the tax either.

Besides, smoking has no other purpose than to support a habit or to be used as a luxury. Ammo is for sport, feeding the family through hunting and self defence.
Smoking is unhealthy for a good portion of users. Ammunition is only harmful when used in a crime and accidental injuries are incredibly rare in comparison to the percentage of smokers that get sick.
Taxing cigarettes is intended to reduce smoking which often harms people. An ammunition tax is intended to reduce gun ownership which are often used to save people's lives or feed families when used for hunting.

They are not the same. It is like trying to tax beer just because. Beer is a food staple and in moderation is a health benefit. Ammunition is used legally maybe 99.9999% of the time and very rarely harms anyone when used for sport.

Now one might try to argue that people getting shot by criminals costs the health system money and gets people harmed just like smoking does, but as stated above where the number of murders and illegal shootings using ammunition compared to the number of legally used ammunition is the total opposite of the number of smokers getting sick compared to the overall number of smokers, there is also the fact that if there was no tobacco available smokers will not search for other means, but the murderer without a gun will still kill their victim or try to.

Making ammunition more expensive or virtually unavailable to the law abiding public will do nothing to curb crime, but a high cigarette tax will induce more people to quit. One has a logical reasoning (right or wrong), and the other doesn't.

[AK-74me]

Originally Posted by RadioPatrol

I'd love to see Police Dept's in Cali not be able to buy Handgun ammo because all the Ammo makers abandoned the state ....

and no I do think if this thing passes the cops should be exempt - some are as crooked as the criminals ...........


Something else to smuggle into Cali ....... Ammo

Kinda like what Ronnie Barrett did to them?

Yeah this is such BS, I can't stand this state wish I could afford to pick up and move to VA or PA.

[chernmax]

Only in MD, idiots...

[desertrat (Premo)]

Originally Posted by clevalley

From what I understand is a microscopic fingerprint/serial number on the actual projectile... can you imagine the COST on this? The bill simply says encoding and California said "Oh, we will laser etch the case and bullet" - well, on impact the laser etching on the bullet will probably be trashed - so this leads to microscopic beads impregnated into/on the projectile...
In all honesty - I truly understand why, but it is HIGHLY impractical nor is it a viable solution.

So how are they going to encode individual shotgun pellets?

Originally Posted by chernmax

Only in MD, idiots...

So true, what's even sadder is how people put up with it.

[bcp (Premo)]

Originally Posted by desertrat

So how are they going to encode individual shotgun pellets?

Have you ever seen those chinese guys that engrave your life story on a grain of rice for a buck two fifty at the carnivals????

[desertrat (Premo)]

Originally Posted by bcp

Have you ever seen those chinese guys that engrave your life story on a grain of rice for a buck two fifty at the carnivals????

Ah so, wise one.

[ImnoMensa]

Welcome to the People's Republic of Maryland.

Land of the taxed and home of political dipsticks.

[Magnum (Premo)]

well you know what this means? They are giving everyone plenty of time to stock up now

[Novus Collectus]

Originally Posted by Magnum

well you know what this means? They are giving everyone plenty of time to stock up now

What if they also make possession of un registered ammo a felony?

[AK-74me]

Originally Posted by Novus Collectus

What if they also make possession of un registered ammo a felony?

I guess I'll be the first to say it, "they can come get em one at a time"