$1,000 tax on handguns

[Dufus]

If their Governor signs the bill into law, don't hold your breath on it being overturned. The only way it can be is by the voters.

We thought that would work here, but oblamer got elected for a second term as we all know. Same there, the turds got elected by the voters.

The tax thing has been in the US for quite a few years. When I say this, I think of tobacco for one. Then there was the EPA in infinite wisdom decided to do it to Refrigerant 12 in order to force it out. A one dollar can of R12 rose to approximately $170 per can....all with taxes.

Now they are doing the same with R22 and there are still millions of AC units using it, but if you have to have some added to the system, might as well get a home improvement loan to pay for it.

 

[MurBob]

Does the new tax cover gun parts too?

What about selling / buying the gun in separate parts?


If they are able to successfully tax guns out of people's ability to purchase them, my guess is that we'll just start printing them ourselves.

3D metal printing is coming a long way fast and has been shown to hold up quite well in Jet engine parts. Even (Boeing?) is now manufacturing jet engine fuel nozzles using 3D metal printing. The technology has been shown to produce a better part, faster and cheaper.. and, because its 3D printed, they can include design characteristics that were not possible with conventional manufacturing.

Making a handgun or rifle should be a walk in the park by comparison.

 

[johnwilliamson062]

Making a handgun or rifle should be a walk in the park by comparison.

It is. Just not using a desktop printer running off a normal household outlet.
Also, keep in mind many of those aerospace parts are many times as expensive as an entire pistol. I worked on one aluminum part that I calculated was worth more than its weight in gold.

 

[Buzzcook]

It is often forgotten today, but FDR was very anti-gun. Some say that he planned to order the army to disperse Congress and take over as dictator - a common idea in the world at the time (1934), remember - and there is evidence to support that view. He never went the whole way, though he became president for life, but we got the NFA, the first FEDERAL gun "control" law.

FDR had lots of power. It came from having a large majority in congress and from popular support from the citizens.
But as for taking over the government that was the other side. A group of business people tried to hire Gen. Smedley Butler to stage a coup detat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

While it wasn't a very serious threat, it is the one we have records for.

FDR faced an assassination attempt that took the life of Anton Cernak. I'd say that gave him a reason to dislike guns.

 

[g.willikers]

If they are able to successfully tax guns out of people's ability to purchase them, my guess is that we'll just start printing them ourselves.

Heck, most gun owners can't put sights on their own guns, let alone make one from scratch.
If gun ownership becomes that hard, we'll most likely just do what most everyone else on the planet does - revert to knives and clubs.
And steal guns from the government.

 

[44 AMP]

we'll most likely just do what most everyone else on the planet does - revert to knives and clubs.

WE, probably will. However, it sure looks like the rest of the planet is armed with AKs and RPGs!!! Which aren't "legal" there, either, but that doesn't seem to stop them.