Seattle Proposes New Tax On Guns & Ammo Sales

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San Francisco did it. Most of the gun stores closed or moved out of town. So much for revenue and jobs.
 
Are there actually gun shops in Seattle?
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I remember going downtown on my lunch hour to the old Central Gun Exchange on 1st Avenue. Bought a Model 15-2 Dan Wesson revolver, and took it to my car in a brown paper bag. Got back to work in Tukwila without missing any time. America used to be a great country.

Of course, CGE is long gone, so that might help answer your question. Any stores would be on the periphery or in surrounding cities.
 
The part that struck me was that they were proposing a nickel per bullet ammo tax. That would double 22 LR and is a big premium per round on any center fire pistol
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Back when a similar law proposed in this sad state i "hoarded" a whole lot of then cheap .22 ammo. Thankfully the proposal failed.

I'm really surprised that ammo taxes are not already sky high in certain cities and states. They soon will be. If the anti-gunners in power can't take away the 2nd Amendment, they'll take away the ammo...or make it near impossible to afford.
 
CoalTrain49 said:
Seattle is a strange place. I lived there for 10 years back in the 70's and 80's. It used to be a pretty nice city with a northwest flavor. Now it's a left wing stronghold with lots of pot smoking Starbucks guzzling new age hippy techno geek bicyclist who like to get naked for the solstice parade. The politicians there are looking at the recent success of I-594 and seeing tax dollars unclaimed by the city. Seattle is going to out San Francisco soon as the most liberal tax burdened city on the west coast.

If they want to tax ammo and guns in the city that's fine with me. I don't go there except to pass through as fast as I can.

Getting that tax state wide is going to be a tall order somewhat like the tax to build Safeco field. The politicians in Seattle absolutely live on a different planet.
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Well said. One reason and one reason only do I go into Seattle anymore: The VA hospital there. Making plans though, to move to the "other Washington" : east of the mountains. Going to locate where I can breathe easier for many reasons. And be closer to a different VA facility. Think it"s best to put a great distance between where I live and one of the newer, Sodom and Gomorrah's. Seattle's taxation plans are as ludicrous as the lotus eaters that propose them.

Cicero said 2,000 years ago, “If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.”
 
Is this going to be a tax on violent things or on violence? One way, it is a prior restraint, the other it's a license for violence. Either way, BAAAAAAAD IDEA!!!!!
 
So when you die and are proved non-violent, your estate will get a tax refund?

Alabama has an abuse tax added to marriage license. I told my wife that I'm gonna get my money's worth... She was not amused. But that's fine , I can make a sandwich and sleep on the couch just fine by my self.
 
But that tax would affect only guns. Maybe they could tax and license crime, a more direct approach. Want to rob a store? Just get a robbery license from the city. Bump off an inconvenient wife? That will be $100, sir, and good luck. It is known that the poor commit most crimes, so a crime license would discourage crime.

Jim
 
But that tax would affect only guns. Maybe they could tax and license crime, a more direct approach. Want to rob a store? Just get a robbery license from the city. Bump off an inconvenient wife? That will be $100, sir, and good luck. It is known that the poor commit most crimes, so a crime license would discourage crime.

Jim
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Something like that happened here in WA. We have a huge ferry system that used to be supported by all the drivers in the state by a state fuel tax. When the state finally realized that there just wasn't enough money there they were faced with finding a way to pay for the ferry system. They proposed increasing the fuel tax and it got shot down. Then someone came up the brilliant idea of a user fee actually making the folks that use the ferries pay the fee. Price to ride a ferry quadrupled. The violent people should foot the bill.
 
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It is about money, not violence. They would be better off deciding how much money they want and divide by ten. Charge every human per finger since that is easy to audit or prove a refund is warranted. Over taxing goods will encourage a black market. The key to success is to keep the tax low enough to squeeze out the margin from the non-govt profiteers. In TN, there is a dime tax stamp required for every retail box of ammo. Same for a five round box of buck or 500 round box of 22. Nobody really cares. At five cents per round, somebody might start smuggling 22. That means increased govt cost to police and enforce or loss of sales and tax revenue. Either way the result is not what they intended. Zero impact on violence at that level of tax.
 
If they really wanted to curb gun violence, they would implement the Chris Rock bullet tax. "At $5,000 per bullet, everybody will know he did something to deserve it...they put $50,000 worth of bullets in him." But 5 cents, is just taxing your constituents. Fight it on principle. Find out what the money will be used for. Maybe it is worth it if it pays for gun safety programs, hunter education, and high school target shooting clubs. If it is for anti2a non profits or the general fund, that should be made public knowledge.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuX-nFmL0II
 
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