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Synopsis:
Authorizing a person to sell ammunition for a regulated firearm on or after January 1, 2009, only in accordance with the Act; requiring an ammunition manufacturer to encode ammunition for a regulated firearm in a specified way; requiring the Secretary of State Police beginning on January 1, 2009, to establish and maintain an encoded ammunition database; imposing a tax of 5 cents per round on the sale of encoded ammunition beginning on January 1, 2009; etc.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2008RS/billfile/HB0517.htm
Sponsored by:
Delegate Emmett C. Burns, Jr., District 10
Delegate Curt Anderson, District 43
Delegate Talmadge Branch, District 45
Delegate Jill P. Carter, District 41
Delegate Cheryl D. Glenn, District 45
Delegate Hattie N. Harrison, District 45
Delegate Nathaniel T. Oaks, District 41
Delegate Barbara Robinson, District 40
Delegate Melvin L. Stukes, District 44
Delegate Shawn Z. Tarrant, District 40
Delegate Jay Walker, District 26
This is a de facto ammunition ban for handguns and regulated rifles in MD because no manufacturer will be able to comply with the encoding by Jan 1 2009 and most will not see the point of complying just for MD customers. This is a sneaky way to make ammunition unavailable for hunters, recreational shooters and prevents people that need a gun for home defense from practicing.
Even if there is a manufacturer that supplies MD with encoded ammunition, they will charge more for the encoding batches and then there is the $.05 a round cost to us. For those of us that shoot a thousand rounds a year that is $50 in tax alone, and maybe double that with the manufactuters added cost.
Some of us shoot ten thousand rounds a year. This would be at least a $500 annual tax. They want to tax the gun sports out of existence or backdoor ban it.
Authorizing a person to sell ammunition for a regulated firearm on or after January 1, 2009, only in accordance with the Act; requiring an ammunition manufacturer to encode ammunition for a regulated firearm in a specified way; requiring the Secretary of State Police beginning on January 1, 2009, to establish and maintain an encoded ammunition database; imposing a tax of 5 cents per round on the sale of encoded ammunition beginning on January 1, 2009; etc.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2008RS/billfile/HB0517.htm
Sponsored by:
Delegate Emmett C. Burns, Jr., District 10
Delegate Curt Anderson, District 43
Delegate Talmadge Branch, District 45
Delegate Jill P. Carter, District 41
Delegate Cheryl D. Glenn, District 45
Delegate Hattie N. Harrison, District 45
Delegate Nathaniel T. Oaks, District 41
Delegate Barbara Robinson, District 40
Delegate Melvin L. Stukes, District 44
Delegate Shawn Z. Tarrant, District 40
Delegate Jay Walker, District 26
This is a de facto ammunition ban for handguns and regulated rifles in MD because no manufacturer will be able to comply with the encoding by Jan 1 2009 and most will not see the point of complying just for MD customers. This is a sneaky way to make ammunition unavailable for hunters, recreational shooters and prevents people that need a gun for home defense from practicing.
Even if there is a manufacturer that supplies MD with encoded ammunition, they will charge more for the encoding batches and then there is the $.05 a round cost to us. For those of us that shoot a thousand rounds a year that is $50 in tax alone, and maybe double that with the manufactuters added cost.
Some of us shoot ten thousand rounds a year. This would be at least a $500 annual tax. They want to tax the gun sports out of existence or backdoor ban it.
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