Rumors Spread, Panic Ensues. Details At 11:00.

[The Lone Haranguer]

These ammo taxes have been proposed a number of times for at least 25 years. We should be vigilant, but not to the point of running around breathlessly. With sufficient support, it is not inconceivable that one may pass someday.

 

[jmr40]

Phydeaux642

There actually has been legislation proposed to tax all fast food to help defray medical costs from heart disease.

 

[Phydeaux642]

There actually has been legislation proposed to tax all fast food to help defray medical costs from heart disease.

My question would be this - Can anyone take responsibilty for themselves?

 

[ants]

There already IS a special tax on ammunition. Currently 11%. Started in 1934.

Excise taxes totaling more than $478 million flowed this year into U.S. wildlife conservation programs thanks to The Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act of 1937 (popularly known as the Pittman-Robinson Act) and the Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Act of 1950 (Dingell-Johnson Act). In 1984 a third statute, the Wallop-Breaux Act included a portion of federal fuels tax and import duties on fishing tackle and pleasure boats. Over $8.5 billion from the federal measures have funded U.S. wildlife programs since the two acts became law.

These statues are intriguing examples of sportsmen supporting wildlife and wild habitat. They are described as self-imposed taxes lobbied for by hunters, gun owners, archers, fishermen, and boaters. The Pittman-Robinson Act imposes an 11 percent excise tax on “sporting” firearms and ammunition, a ten percent tax on handguns, and 11 percent sales tax on archery equipment. Fully half of the monies collected via the handgun and archery equipment taxes goes to state hunter education and safety programs.

 

[hso]

Y'know, we should print these signs up and post them whenever some breathless individual starts spouting dire rumors like this.




Ants is correct, every one of us that purchases a box of ammo already pays a tax to support the wildlife operations. Both federal and state.

 

[Aquila]

Utterly beautiful PsyOps... Obama hasn't said anything related to the quotes I've seen attributed to him since the campaign.

Same thing with Clinton and Bush I and Bush II: many things are promulgated in the meda; everything printed/quoted in the Mainstream Media and Internet is not gospel truth. Learn to discern for self.

HOWEVER, the shrinking supply should give thoughtful persons reason to consider options.

 

[Phydeaux642]

Ants is correct, every one of us that purchases a box of ammo already pays a tax to support the wildlife operations. Both federal and state.

Yes, but this tax wasn't meant to be punitive. All others from this point forward probably would be.

 

[hso]

Folks are talking about something that hasn't happened as if it is a done deal.

Yes, there are members of Congress that would tax ammo out of reach if they could get the support needed to pass the law. BUT they're the same people that have wanted to do this for the past decade and they have even less support than they used to. Nothing new so why all the paranoia?