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Chicago considered proposing a per round tax of 5 cents but from what I recently read that they got pressure and decided to not propose it
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But the $25 per firearm tax has been enacted.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012...ors_picks=true
Stated reason for the tax, in that article : "Preckwinkle said the average shooting victim cost taxpayers $52,000 in acute care because nearly 70 percent of the victims don't have health insurance, ... "