How about a $1 per bullet tax?

[Pryderi]

If no one wants to implement gun control, let's make the bullets really expensive.

[Ikonoklast]

1. You can re-load your own brass.

Lots of shooters do that anyway, it's way cheaper than buying new.

[Pryderi]

3. Fine. Then we tax gun powder.

[Ikonoklast]

7. You are getting into punitive taxation which is de facto regulation.

It will be ruled unconstitutional, and rightly so.

[Tunkamerica]

17. tax ruling things unconstitutional

[Ikonoklast]

18. Are you serious?

EVERYTHING would be unconstitutional.


We'd solve the deficit problem in a week.

[Tunkamerica]

24. of course I'm serious...

[Cleita]

44. I would rather a punitive tax on ammo rather than

the ones they have now for tobacco and alcohol. Since those taxes purportedly pay for programs to treat drug addiction and alcoholism, maybe the bullet tax can fund reparations for victims of gun violence.

[beevul]

58. What?

"maybe the bullet tax can fund reparations for victims of gun violence."


People that are not engaged in gun violence but own and shoot guns should be paying reparations to victims of gun violence?

Why exactly should they be expected to do that?

[cherokeeprogressive]

23. You think gunpowder can't be made at home?

Your next post will be, I'm assuming...

Tax sulfur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate?

[MattBaggins]

40. Lock people up for making gun powder at home?

Not really suggesting this; just playing along.

[27nitro]

30. You would have no problem with a poll tax then. nt

[Dappleganger]

2. LOL, what about the guys who make their own bullets?

Which would be quite a few folks from my range, btw.

[Pryderi]

5. LOL, see above.

[Dappleganger]

39. Perhaps

it would be better if you educate yourself a little more on the process of making bullets.

[cleanhippie]

43. +1000000

Education is the key. So many are lacking it.

[WinkyDink]

33. Probably not so many psychos would have the wherewithal.

[Statistical]

38. However I think most "psychos" could simply pay the $30 to kill 30 people. n/t

[HEyHEY]

4. Chris rock suggested that a long time ago

[Duer 157099]

22. He sure did. $5,000 per bullet.

One of the funniest routines I've seen, and makes sense too.

[HEyHEY]

25. "He musta done something, they put $50,000 worth of bullets in his ass"

[Common Sense Party]

6. They're too expensive now, in my opinion.

I just started shooting right about the time ammo prices skyrocketed. Target shooting is getting to be an expensive hobby.

I know what you're saying, and we'd all like the same end result, but we'll never agree on the means.

I would be fine with a comprehensive background check.

[LisaL]

8. Someone like Loughner who was not diagnosed with anything

would pass a background check (which he did, no problem).

[Common Sense Party]

9. Someone like him would find a way to afford expensive bullets, too.

[LisaL]

10. A 1$ tax per bullet ain't goint to do it, that's for sure.

Maybe we should require a mental evaluation before someone can buy a gun.

[Common Sense Party]

13. That's more what I was aiming at when I said a comprehensive background

check. No trouble with the law, no mental health issues, perhaps interview former bosses, co-workers, neighbors.

Of course, no gov't agency has the manpower for that.

Maybe the firearm manufacturers will have to fund the checks.

[cleanhippie]

46. Can you suggest a better way?

Sure, he went undiagnosed and then killed people. Without due process, one cannot be locked up or have rights taken away (including owning a gun) so can you suggest a better way that may have prevented this?

[j420norcal]

26. I hear ya.

I have 200 rounds of .308 that have been sitting in my closet for a good 3 years now. Haven't fired a single round as I don't really have the money to buy more ammo. Besides, I fully anticipate I will using that ammunition as currency one day.

[SnakeEyes]

11. What good would this do?

Cigarettes are expensive yet people still buy. And more people care about their guns than they do about cigarettes.

I propose a tax on salads and vegetables instead.

[TheWraith]

12. So killing 20 people would cost $20.

Meanwhile, competitive shooters who go through thousands of rounds a year are taxed to the point where they can't pursue their hobby.

This idea was idiotic the first ten times someone suggested it, and it's still idiotic now.

[guitar man]

19. not to mention law abiding ccw permit holders

If people are going to carry legally for self defense, I don't want to discourage them from spending more time, and rounds at the range. The sharper they are, the better.

[Abq_Sarah]

14. And at the same time

We can tax words.

[beevul]

15. Poll tax anyone?

I hope nobody has such a short memory as to claim that votes never killed anyone.

I think some dead iraqis would disagree if they could.

[guitar man]

16. uh, no

A lot of people still hunt to put food on the table. It takes more than just the rounds you kill your game with, you have to stay in practice and keep your weapons sighted to make clean kills. It's expensive enough as it is.

[Name removed]

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[Forkboy]

21. I think we should tax toilet paper.

I'm assuming (hoping) that it's something we all use....

[taterguy]

29. Must suck to be you

How do you stand living in a place where the trees have no leaves?

Besides, any public restroom has plenty of toilet paper available to take home.

Weren't you ever a broke college student?

[Dr. Strange]

53. From my cold, messy hands...

wait, how does that go again?

[The Straight Story]

27. Good, then only the govt and rich people can have them, guess you only trust them (nt)

[onenote]

28. Because it will be easier to pass a bill that is both a tax and gun legislation?

It would be easier just to throw a half ton of red meat to the republicans if your goal is to get them fired up.

[Vickers]

31. Let's begin charging 50 bucks for starting boneheaded threads. n/t

[GSLevel9]

42. Hehehe... Startin' my day with a smile.

[jody]

32. How Long, I say HOW LONG must we endure the same old nonsensical anti-RKBA posts? nt

[ileus]

34. forever it seems.

[Gaedel]

37. The enemy is us....

Thoughts like the OP have been propelling Republicans to office for thirty years now.

[Codeine]

59. Everyone likes their little preferred bit of the Bill of Rights

but happily shits on the rest, it would seem.

[hollowdweller]

35. I wouldn't support that.

I have a pistol range set up by my house and target shoot 2 or 3 times a week for fun.

That would jack up the cost of recreational shooting so much that I wouldn't have the money to be able to enjoy one of my hobbies.

I think that would penaize people like me too much. A liberal who likes to shoot guns.

A lot of the crazies have just bought their guns not long before their rampages. I'm not sure that would be that much of an impediment.

I personally think that the answer lies more in the realm of somehow making the NICS instant check a bit more inclusive to weed out more people.

Also maybe limit magazine capacity for a pistol to what it was designed for?? On most auto pistols the stock magazines fit totally in the handle of the pistol. A 30 round clip in a pistol would impair it's concealability. It would throw the balance off too. Maybe limit pistol magazine size to what the original design of the pistol permits??

[Statistical]

36. So what would that accomplish other than a punative tax.

The shooter fired 30 rounds. So that mass murder would have cost him $30 more? Think someone who is either going to die in the shooting (Cho) or going to prison for life (Laughner) really cares about $30.

A 500%+ tax is punitive for the sake of being punitive. It would do nothing to reduce crime but it would make lawful uses of firearms more difficult. Admit it you simply want to tax them because you don't like them.

One thing you may not have considered is practice. It takes hundreds if not thousands of rounds to become competent with a firearm. There is no requirement to do so but many CCWer do practice regularly to improve their skills. You have now made that 10x as expensive and likely we would see a significant drop in the amount of practice and number of rounds fired.

So no change in crime and lawful gunholders will be practicing less.

[GSLevel9]

41. Fail. For MANY reasons. Nt

[arthritisR_US]

45. chris rock has already suggested that except I believe he wants them to

cost $5000 per bullet.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

47. uh...wrong.

face/palm

[RamboLiberal]

48. F*ck that

Amazing how many of you are sky is falling about gun issues.

Thousands if not hundreds of thousands of rounds are sent down range safely for every 1 round that is use illegaly to injure or kill someone.

Don't you take away my rights to enjoy the shooting sports at the range.

Some here are as nutty on this issue as the Right to Lifers!

You really want the Repukes to control all branches of govt for probably 1st half of this century.

[justiceischeap]

49. Before you know it, instead of the Anarchists Cookbook, you'd have

The Patriot Cookbook that would show patriots how to make their own artillery.

[slackmaster]

50. Bullets are made of lead

Lead is cheap. People cast their own bullets all the time.

[jody]

54. Lead is cheap but not as cheap as it used to be. I remember 25 lb shot below $10 now over $45 but

wheel weights make excellent bullets. :hi:

[-..__...]

51. How about a $1.00 per word posted on the Internet tax?

If that sounds unreasonable, the tax could be tiered so a person pays more for bigger words, and less for smaller ones?

Think of all the bandwidth that could saved... never mind that we'd be spared long winded diatribes (especially from those who go to
great lengths to impress others with their vocabulary).

People would also think twice before going on a long winded rant or flaming another poster...

"Damn! That smack down cost $50.00. The OP must have really deserved it".

Probably the best benefit of all would be a reduction of people posting idiotic and ridiculous comments and/or ideas... for example: suggesting that a $1.00 tax per bullet would be a good thing.

[spin]

52. Many people legally carry firearms in public ...

and often practice at the range to allow them to master the use of their firearm.

What your tax would accomplish is to stop all practice. The result could easily lead to more death caused by people who would have hit an attacker but missed and hit an innocent bystander.

[jody]

55. Unintended consequences. n/t

[Pryderi]

56. anyone see Rachel bring up the 1934 machine gun tax piece?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

57. Chris Rock video here..."we need some bullet control all bullets should cost $5,000"....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAoMNEQo4sQ