Seattle Gun & Ammo tax...working.

[Artos]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/05/24/critics-fire-back-at-seattle-gun-ammo-tax-claim-is-aimed-at-killing-business.html?intcmp=hpbt2

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“What they’re trying to do is get gun stores out of the city,” said Coombs, 48, whose Outdoor Emporium store operates in the shadow of Safeco Field and boasts of having “the largest selection of outdoor related products at affordable everyday warehouse pricing.”


The tax was proposed by Seattle City Council President Tom Burgess. (Seattle.gov)


Longtime customers have told Coombs they simply go outside the city now to buy firearms and ammunition rather than pay the tax, which he blames for the layoffs of two workers so far this year. Precise Shooter, a smaller gun shop in Seattle, moved 16 miles outside of the city to Lynnwood on the day the tax took effect.

“We feel that, basically, a crockpot politician was trying to buttress his 'progressive' credentials and we got run over,” owner Sergey Solyanik told MyNorthwest.com.

Solyanik was referring to Seattle City Council President Tim Burgess, who drafted the law providing for the so-called “gun violence tax.” The City Budget Office estimated the gun violence tax would collect between $300,000 to $500,000 a year, which Burgess said would fund gun violence prevention programs and medical research.



“Seattle is arguing that this is a tax, not a regulation,” Second Amendment Foundation Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb said. “But it’s a specific tax on a specific item, which falls back to being gun control because it is only a tax on guns.”

[Thundervee]

Look for that to be the norm if killary gets elected


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[Mudslinger]

There has already been a bill introduced by a federal legislator to apply a $1000 tax on any gun sale in the states. Not sure where it went, but this is what we are facing.

[muzzlebrake]

There has already been a bill introduced by a federal legislator to apply a $1000 tax on any gun sale in the states. Not sure where it went, but this is what we are facing.

They will probably try to also make it retroactive so that you will have to pay that money for each and every gun you already own------or have them confiscated.
It's a ways off but that's where they would like to go no doubt.

[Doc Peter]

They will probably try to also make it retroactive so that you will have to pay that money for each and every gun you already own------or have them confiscated.
It's a ways off but that's where they would like to go no doubt.

Well I guess that boating accident I was in last summer on Lake Mead; it was a very good thing I survived with that life jacket, but lost all those guns.

[Landrover]

Another chess move in this match of wits!