Chicago Wants to Tax Ammo

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Deadly Weapons License, Chapter 54

http://www.municode.com/Resources/gateway.asp?pid=13805&sid=13
Sucks for dealers:
A dealer needs a valid Federal FFL and Illinois FOID before applying for a DWL.
The Department of Revenue shall use its best efforts to approve or deny all applications for a deadly weapons dealer license or a gun show permit within 30 days after receiving all information required by this section.
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Then and only then can conduct business... $1000/year fee (section 32) for DWL.

Sucks for buyers:
"Subjects" must submit fingerprints, SSN, authorization for state AG to check criminal and mental health review before purchase, as well as holding a valid FOID and filling out a 4473 and ISP phone check. Additional $50 background check fee to Crook...


In any event, I shot at Midwest Guns in Lyons last weekend, and Gunworld in Bensenville the weekend before. There's also Shore Galleries up in Lincolnwood. Not positive about the political boundaries, but I'm pretty sure all of those shops are in Cook.
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Lyons and Lincolnwood are in Cook...Bensenville is DuPage, BUT the O'Hare expansion is gonna push out to York Rd, so Gun World is (eventually) eliminated. Are they selling again or is only the range open?

OK, there's also Bell's Guns (?) on Mannheim Rd...Franklin Park (Cook), which 90% of the time has an empty parking lot...10% there may be one or two cars, besides employees. They had a <10% blued Bulgarian Makarov for $350+ fees/tax a couple years ago...must shoot "house" ammo on their range, handgun only (no handgun-caliber long arms)...a less-restrictive range @Gun World is only a couple miles away and NO Bulgy Mak is worth $350.
 
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I have to be honest with you, when I hear "Chicago wants...", I might as well hear, "Teheran wants...", or "Pyongyang wants..."

If you're a gun owner and you live in Cook County, it's obviously because you like the way of life, or at least you don't dislike it enough to move some place where you can live a decent life.
 
tank Johnson - Illinois

Yes, Tank got caught with 500 rounds and 6 guns, or as those of us in the culture call, "basically unarmed"


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I think Bell's has gone the way of the dinosaur. I haven't been by there in a couple of months but the last time I pulled in the parking the lot, it looked liked it was totally gone.

There are only 3 maybe 4 shops/stores still in business in C(r)ook County. So this is not to generate revenue, but to force them out of business.
 
Bingo. And the power to tax is the power to destroy. When it comes...our ammunition is where they'll hit us.
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Hmmm... that could give new meaning to the term "tax return".
 
[If you're a gun owner and you live in Cook County, it's obviously because you like the way of life, or at least you don't dislike it enough to move some place where you can live a decent life./QUOTE]
I live in the C[r]ook county part of Elgin, I can't afford to move at this time. Not everybody can just pull up stakes and move like that. I doubt most people can. I'm 30 seconds from Kane County, which is where I buy ammo and 45 minutes from the range in DeKalb county where I shoot. A new Cabelas is due to open this summer about 5 minutes away. All in all,a relatively decent life here!
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jackinil:

I agree with your sentiments. It is not so easy to just pull up your stakes and leave. Illinois has been my home for the past 25 years. I am currently in college and when I am done I am planning to look for employment outside of Illinois.

Unfortunately many people here just think that we can just pull up and leave our families, our jobs, and our homes. I am tired of hearing it from others as well. It isnt that bad in some regards. If we had CCW IL would not be as bad as some states that have it.
 
Illinois is a great place in which to live--especially Chicago. I envy all of you who live there. I'd live there too but I am not worthy to do so, and I would not want to be responsible for lowering the tone of that fine state or that great city. Mayor Daley is first rate in my book, and all of the city's Aldermen are superior people. I wish I were good enough to live there, but I'm just not.

When New York City grows up it hopes to be Chicago. Thank goodness for Mayor Michael Bloomberg's great vision.

Sigh.
 
I'm just tagging this to watch, what chicago faces for gun laws, the rest of the state needs to be on the look out for.
 
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/251170,CST-NWS-metro10.article



Metro briefs

February 10, 2007
Commissioners reject plan to levy tax on bullets
Cook County commissioners shot down an effort to slap a tax on ammunition sold here. Commissioner Roberto Maldonado pushed for a tax -- initially at 10 cents a bullet -- but it failed. Maldonado tried Friday to increase the tax to 50 cents a bullet, but no commissioner would even "second" his motion. Also killed was Maldonado's plan to slap a $100 tax on SUVs sold in the county. Passing a county committee Friday were new fees for towed vehicles and false-alarm calls to businesses in unincorporated Cook County, among other things. The full board is set to vote on a variety of fee hikes later this month.
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"February 10, 2007
Commissioners reject plan to levy tax on bullets
Cook County commissioners shot down an effort to slap a tax on ammunition sold here."

Give thanks, this time.

ARt
 
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