Baltimore Bullet Tax?

[funkfool]

Only from a Dem...

Bullet Tax?: Baltimore Mayoral Candidate Offers Unusual Crime Prevention Plan
If you plan to go shooting in Baltimore, it might be a little more expensive come this September.
WBAL-TV is reporting that Baltimore mayoral candidate Otis Rolley has unveiled a new proposal to add a $1 bullet tax to each round sold within city limits. This would be part of Rolley’s multi-pronged strategy to reduce crime in Baltimore, which also includes better training and standards for the Baltimore Police Department, working with the media to raise awareness of suspects at large, and reducing the number of vacant properties in the city.
Rolley, a Democrat who previously served as Baltimore’s planning director, believes a bullet tax will specifically decrease random shootings around the city during holidays — and just generally up the price tag on gun related crimes.
“While the courts have consistently ruled against significant gun control legislation,” his plan states, “there is still a way to decrease crime: substantially increase the cost of its commission.”
It adds, “Increasing the cost of guns won’t work, because many criminals don’t purchase new guns, and they can be borrowed or even rented in some areas.”
Currently, 50 rounds of 9mm ammunition online looks to cost around $15.
Read the entire plan, here.

Sure...

[mutt]

$1 bullet tax to each round sold within city limits.

$1 a round? I see them losing a hell of a lot more in sales tax than they ever get back in bullet tax. I also foresee a whole slew of ammo retailers springing up right outside the city limits.

[Cman]

What an idiot! Those dems just dont get it and never will.

[funkfool]

96% against... wow.. there's a suprise... /sarcasm
http://www.wbaltv.com/r/28595846/detail.html

[alxone]

it would not matter if they made it 20 dollars a round there is only one or two places inside city limits to buy ammo anyway . even the gangsters go out to valley guns or even the bass pro in the mall in b-more . the gun laws in baltimore are back asswards

[SuperiorDG]

I buy ammo on the internet and don't pay any tax. I guess the gang bangers don't have the internet.

[SuperiorDG]

He's been listening to Chris Rock too much.

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

[alxone]

nope spent most of my life in inner city baltimore

[Irving]

He's been listening to Chris Rock too much.

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

That was my first thought.

[cstone]

It's the People's Republic of Maryland. This is the type of laws they have been passing in Maryland for the past 50 years. They tax everything and anyone who can moves out of the state.

I'm pretty sure that I could make some cold cash buying cases of ammo in Virginia or Pennsylvania and selling them in Baltimore on the street. It's only about 50 miles south or north, so depending on how fast I could sell each load, I might be able to make several trips

There probably isn't a single politician in central MD (Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Anne Arundel County, PG County, Howard County) that even knows that it is possible to pick up brass and buy reloading components and roll your own in the basement.

The east coast is a whole other world and bears no resemblance to Colorado when it comes to gun laws.