Seattle City Council Considering New Gun Purchase Tax That Could Collect Up to $500k A Year
Via the Associated Press at the Washington Times
The Seattle City Council is considering a new tax on gun sellers to collect money for gun violence prevention and research on how to reduce the impact of gun violence on the city and its residents.
Under the proposal, gun and ammunition sellers would be charged $25 for every firearm sold in Seattle and 5 cents for every round of ammunition sold. City officials estimate the new tax would collect between $300,000 and $500,000 a year.
Many are outraged over this new tax, it’s just another hurtle for law-abiding citizens to go through to exercise their right to the Second Amendment. We all know Washington state gets a little ridiculous with their gun control, so this doesn’t come as a surprise for some.
This is where citizens need to come in and peacefully assemble against this, just like Washington state citizens did against the draconian i594 law.
Also a big thing to realize here is that this is a potential threat to Seattle’s guns stores, a lot of people will choose to go outside of Seattle to avoid the tax and buy guns elsewhere. It might actually hurt Seattle’s economy. It is still being decided with city counsel.
Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Bellevue-based Second Amendment Foundation, says state law makes the proposed Seattle gun violence tax “dead on arrival.”
“They’re wrong, and they know it,” Gottlieb said. “They’re just wearing their anti-gun philosophy on their sleeves.”
Also the tax was an idea by those against guns because they only think guns cause violence. The defensive gun uses that happen every day are always ignored, and the fact that objective and national studies have been done to prove more guns equals less crime.
The total amount of money this tax would bring in, between 300,000 and 500,000$, would go towards “gun violence prevention and research”. You can be sure that Hemenway or someone extremely anti-gun would be picked to do this prevention and research.
