Chicago gun tax

[Singlestack]

25% is pretty darn steep. On a $500 pistol, thats $125. If 8% sales tax, thats $40 more - for a total of $665. ouch!

http://www.newsmax.com/US/Chicago-gun-tax-healthcare/2012/11/02/id/462631?s=al&promo_code=1094E-1

Singlestack

[BPTactical]

Might want to check your math Singlestack-article says $25.00, not 25%.
However it is a foreboding sign, notice how it says "First city in the country".
If O gets a second term look for this kind of crap nationwide.
We know that he and his stellar AG are very much against private firearms ownership.

A second term will see an anti American Marxist unleashed..........

[sroz]

25% is pretty darn steep. On a $500 pistol, thats $125. If 8% sales tax, thats $40 more - for a total of $665. ouch!

http://www.newsmax.com/US/Chicago-gun-tax-healthcare/2012/11/02/id/462631?s=al&promo_code=1094E-1

Singlestack

Article showed $25 per gun. This may just be the beginning.

[Singlestack]

Good catch sir! $565 then. Oh well, thats what I get for posting before a cup of coffee...

[Byte Stryke]

Under the plan, Cook County, Ill., will impose a $25 tax on each firearm sold. The tax is expected to raise $600,000 in revenue in 2013.

I see a $25.00 tax... not 25%
which is a huge difference

[Great-Kazoo]

Article showed $25 per gun. This may just be the beginning.

Didn't, or are they still charging $10 at gun shows for a BG check?
Chalk up the "tax" to administrative cost, Chi-town and other gun "friendly" cities will run as long as they can with it.

[Byte Stryke]

Didn't, or are they still charging $10 at gun shows for a BG check?
Chalk up the "tax" to administrative cost, POLITICIANS will run as long as they can with it.



ftfy

[Great-Kazoo]

ftfy


THX .

[bryjcom]

What fools.... There are hardly any gun stores in cook county. They pretty much drove them all out. I know of ONE and he was right on the edge of the county. There might be a few more but not many.

I don't think they are going to make hardly anything.

[Bailey Guns]

I don't think they are going to make hardly anything.

It's not about making money to these people. It's about selling fewer guns. Any money made will just be a bonus.

[copfish]

Most Dealers would pass the "tax" on to he consumer. I can see that kind of tax happening nationwide on ammo and reloading components. "They" may leave the gun issue alone so "they" can crow about how gun friendly "they" are... JMHO

[sniper7]

this needs to be challenged.

We already pay 11% for the Pittman-Robertson Act which i am happy to pay because of how the law was written and where the money goes.

This over-taxation needs to be stopped dead in it's tracks.

[bryjcom]

It's not about making money to these people. It's about selling fewer guns. Any money made will just be a bonus.

Honestly I'm surprised that there are even any gun stores in the county. I remember doing lots of work in that county and tried looking for them so I had something to do to kill some time and I found 1 and that was 5 years ago.

Basically if a gun store wanted to open the neighbors would bitch and complain and the city would refuse them a permit.

I was back there last year and a walmart about 1.5 hours from the city was not allowed to sell certain types of ammo because the old folks in a mobile home park about a .5 mile away were bitching about it being dangerous to sell ammo for a ar15

The f-ing lunacy there was stunning.

[sniper7]

Honestly I'm surprised that there are even any gun stores in the county. I remember doing lots of work in that county and tried looking for them so I had something to do to kill some time and I found 1 and that was 5 years ago.

Basically if a gun store wanted to open the neighbors would bitch and complain and the city would refuse them a permit.

I was back there last year and a walmart about 1.5 hours from the city was not allowed to sell certain types of ammo because the old folks in a mobile home park about a .5 mile away were bitching about it being dangerous to sell ammo for a ar15

The f-ing lunacy there was stunning.

It is amazing how stupid runs rampant.

[Bailey Guns]

It is amazing how stupid runs rampant in heavily democrat-populated/controlled areas.

[bryjcom]

Honestly IL isn't that bad south of I-80.... Or in other words the lower 75%.

The rest of IL is pretty much run by the Chicago politicians.

[sniper7]

Honestly IL isn't that bad south of I-80.... Or in other words the lower 75%.

The rest of IL is pretty much run by the Chicago politicians.

Yep, that is true, I have family about an hour and a half west of chicago.

Same with NY, I love upstate with the open land, lots of trees, good hunting etc. Big cities ruin entire states.

[BushMasterBoy]

Obamas former Chief of Staff, now Mayor of Chicago. Hey it is Cook County! They probably use the money to buy ballistic vests for themselves. Now Grandma has to pay the political thugs $25 to protect herself from the MUY (minority urban youth) that break into her house! Maybe they will add a "senior discount" to this law, oh yeah and include a "Disabled Veteran" discount too. 100% discount!



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel

[BlasterBob]

Honestly IL isn't that bad south of I-80.... Or in other words the lower 75%.

The rest of IL is pretty much run by the Chicago politicians.


South of I-80 = "Down State" Illinois.

Since my job required me to live in Illinois for over 25 years, the only way I like to see Illinois now is by looking in my rear view mirror.[Beer]

[UrbanWolf]

So legal gun owners that committed no crime have to pay healthcare costs from gun violence...
Why don't let everyone pay shit tax for using toilets?

[SAnd]

Some people have been paying $200 per transfer on some guns since 1934. This includes between individuals, not just dealers.

And you get to wait 3 months to a year or more to get approved per transfer.

National Firearms Act of 1934. It sucks.

[BPTactical]

Why don't let everyone pay shit tax for using toilets?

Well then by God let's give them their moneys worth!
[Muaha]