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NSSF Update
For those who may not recognize the acronym, "NSSF" is the National Shooting Sports Foundation -- the folks who bring us the SHOT Show every January. As a media member of the NSSF, I receive their periodic e-mail blasts, and the one that arrived today was a doozie. Unfortunately, I can't find most of the articles on their web site and they are copyrighted, so I can't reproduce them here in their entirety. Together, they make for a sobering wake-up call.
Excerpts: Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg and U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) pushed for increased gun control in separate televised CNN town hall events prior to Nevada's Democratic debate and Presidential primary. Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun control group bankrolled by billionaire presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, is treading lightly with its benefactor. Everytown distanced itself from Bloomberg’s recently surfaced comments about his “stop and frisk” program he supervised as the New York City mayor. https://www.nssf.org/everytown-dista...-his-billions/ U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) filed companion bills, S. 3299 and H.R. 5917 respectively, in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives that would undermine the Tiahrt Amendment, which protects firearms tracing data from being made public. U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) recently introduced, S. 3254, the Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act, which is a 261-page amalgamation of every poor gun control notion she’s concocted and a few other borrowed ideas. Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun control group funded by billionaire Presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, is planning an $8 million spend in the Lone Star State to do there what they did in Virginia. Please buckle your seat belts and remain seated. We are expecting turbulence ahead.
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February 24, 2020, 06:49 PM | #2 |
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I believe Mr Soros is also involved with this push (in the back ground)
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February 24, 2020, 07:07 PM | #3 |
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Thanks for sharing AB. Please keep us posted.
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I received another e-mail blast from the NSSF today. The current panic du jour is a proposed bill in Connecticut (again -- it happens that the NSSF is headquartered in Connecticut, but that's just coincidence) to impose a 35 percent excise tax on ammunition. That's in addition to Connecticut 6.35 percent sales tax.
I believe excise taxes are lumped in with the purchase price, and the sales tax then whacks the whole enchilada. If that's correct, people would be paying a 6.35% sales tax on the 35% excise tax, which effectively raises the overall tax to 43.6 percent. There will be a committee hearing on the bill Thursday, February 27, in Hartford. If there are any Connecticut residents here, try to make it. If you can't get to Hartford to testify against it, submit written testimony. The NSSF provided a link to the CCDL web site to make it as easy as possible: Quote:
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As far as special taxes on ammunition, while I'm no legal expert, I have heard of this being proposed and "shot down" before, something to do with a SOCTUS ruling about "freedom of the press" and a tax on printer's ink, or a poll tax and voting. simply put, if you make a tax that "infringes" on a right, there is legal precedent against it. They can propose it, but the courts will (and should) render it moot. Of course, that was back in the 20th century, some folks think things should be different, now...
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