Colorado passes 6.5% tax on manufacturing and sales of firearms and ammo

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Colorado passes 6.5% tax on manufacturing and sales of firearms and ammo

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/p ... -election/

https://ballotpedia.org/Colorado_Propos ... ure_(2024)

A "yes" vote supported levying a 6.5% excise tax on the manufacture and sale of firearms and ammunition to be imposed on firearms dealers, manufacturers, and ammunition vendors and appropriating the revenue to the Firearms and Ammunition Excise Tax Cash Fund to be used to fund crime victim services programs, mental and behavioral health programs for children and veterans, and school security and safety programs.

It's about safety, per firearm prohibitionists.
Colorado Gun Safety Ballot Measure Prop KK Passes Following Everytown for Gun Safety’s Investment and Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action’s Grassroots Advocacy

highdesert

Re: Colorado passes 6.5% tax on manufacturing and sales of firearms and ammo

2 by highdesert

Sounds like all the CO 2A groups need to start going after CO state legislators that put KK on the state ballot. Colorado is an outdoors state probably with a lot of gun owners, they just need to target the legislature so this doesn't happen again. And figure out a way to repeal KK.

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BKinzey

Re: Colorado passes 6.5% tax on manufacturing and sales of firearms and ammo

3 by BKinzey

Yes, fuck all those victims who got stabbed or just had the shit beat out of them.

CowboyT

Re: Colorado passes 6.5% tax on manufacturing and sales of firearms and ammo

4 by CowboyT

I foresee other anti-2A state governments doing similar, such as California, Washington State, most of the Northeast, and Illinois (because of Chicago) passing similar measures into law.

Does this kind of thing pass Constitutional muster, though, I wonder?

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DispositionMatrix

Re: Colorado passes 6.5% tax on manufacturing and sales of firearms and ammo

5 by DispositionMatrix

CowboyT wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2024 2:00 pm I foresee other anti-2A state governments doing similar, such as California, Washington State, most of the Northeast, and Illinois (because of Chicago) passing similar measures into law.

Does this kind of thing pass Constitutional muster, though, I wonder?

Few care about the Constitution.

I could see MA pushing something like this or simply handling it with a law to further punish firearm owners in the state since the legislature did not include an excise tax in H4885.

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