Pennsylvania Democrats to Propose Bullet
Tax and Encoded Rounds to Track Ammo
Owners
Epoch Times,
by
Beth Brelie
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
6/30/2021 7:25:43 PM
A 5 cent per bullet tax will be proposed in Pennsylvania as part of legislation to be brought forth by two state House Democrats, Rep. Manny Guzman and Rep. Stephen Kinsey.
The tax would fund a state police database of ammunition sold in Pennsylvania.
The planned legislation would require ammunition manufacturers to encode ammunition provided for retail sale in Pennsylvania, and to provide ammunition serial numbers to the Pennsylvania State Police for the ammunition database. The plan was revealed in a joint memo to the state legislature by Guzman and Kinsey.
Well isn't that special, the district attorneys don't prosecute criminals? So why not go after the law abiding citizens? It helps to destroy the civil society. Besides its probably technically impossible to do and there will be no real benefit.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
raspberry 6/30/2021 7:46:31 PM (No. 831866)
This is just a back door approach to outlaw guns, or ammo. No ammo, no guns. Democrats never tell the truth about wanting to outlaw guns and disarm citizens. They defund police and scream about gun crime. The more crime Democrats generate the more they argue for gun control.
The 1968 Gun Control Act required ammo registration. This was repealed when the government testified that not one person was convicted under this provision.
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Serialized ammunition? That's the stupidest thing I have heard since microstamping, which is also easily defeated. Ever hear of a reloading press? Out-of-state purchases? Manufacturers are not going to spend the millions that this type of crap would require.
Do not comply with these bureaucratic aholes that seek to punish the law-abiding over the doings of their criminal pets. Oppose any effort like this. It is stupid, and will never work.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
chumley 6/30/2021 8:15:48 PM (No. 831887)
Absolutely not! There is already a huge ammo shortage in West Virginia now. We dont need Pennsylvanians coming down here buying up what little we have.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
downnout 6/30/2021 8:19:22 PM (No. 831891)
Having lived in PA for many years I don’t think this is going anywhere. Trying to contact anyone on the first day of deer season is close to impossible. Moms, Dads, kids…everybody is out hunting.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Geoman 6/30/2021 8:37:26 PM (No. 831903)
After the Ok City and the NYC Trade Center bombings, there was a strong push by various state and federal governmental entities to mandate that microtaggants be mixed into commercial high explosives, like those used daily in mining operations, like mining for the lithium to make the batteries for the leftist's precious electric automobiles. The Institute of Makers of Explosives (IME), founded to promote standards for the transportation and use of explosives, came out strongly against it due to technical challenges and feasibility issues. In several trial studies, it was revealed that adding microtaggants destabilized the high explosives mix. Trial and error is not a good way to toy around with high explosive mixtures. The costs to implement such a program were very high and the benefits to law enforcement were very low. Besides, terrorists, especially the state-sponsored kind, often use military explosives, such as SEMTEX, RDX, or homemade explosives made from readily available ingredients that can be obtained legally. Creating a mandate to identify ammunition has similar challenges and again, the cost/benefit ratio is low, which may be the democrat's purpose of the whole charade (e.g., jack up prices so that only governments or wealthy globalists and Hollywood democrats can afford ammunition. The whole notion is stupid, especially since law enforcement already does a good job of catching bad guys who use guns to commit crimes, only for democrat prosecutors to release them.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Felixed 6/30/2021 8:44:44 PM (No. 831907)
All those who believe/fear these ammo-Nazis will only be "de-platformed" by use of said ammo... raise your hand.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
leonardo 6/30/2021 8:53:27 PM (No. 831910)
Even Democrats are not stupid enough to the propose direct confiscation of firearms from law abiding Americans because they KNOW how those Americans will react and VOTE. INSTEAD they will seek to INFRINGE upon an essential aspect of gun ownership by various methods like stamping or taxation. Make no mistake, Democrats are OBSESSED (as are most tyrants) with CONTROL, and they will do ANYTHING (election fraud?) to accomplish it. When 'objectors" have no guns, they are easier to control, and even disappear.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Norway 6/30/2021 9:02:02 PM (No. 831913)
if this sh** keeps up, Pennsylvanians won't be hunting deer...they'll be hunting Demonrats.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 6/30/2021 9:20:08 PM (No. 831922)
"Encoded rounds"?
Are those the ones made in the unicorn factory by elves and fairies?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 6/30/2021 9:24:15 PM (No. 831927)
This is straight out of Barack Obama's gun control/confiscation bible. ''Let'm buy guns, but over tax ammo or keep it ''unavailable.''
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rama41 6/30/2021 9:49:35 PM (No. 831943)
We don't have the governor or the Supreme Court, but at least we've still got the legislature.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 6/30/2021 10:02:48 PM (No. 831949)
I picked up a substantial amount of once fired brass cases today. In a day or two, they'll be loaded ammo.
No unicorns or encoders involved.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
lazlototh 6/30/2021 10:16:00 PM (No. 831954)
Idiot legislators don't even realize how easy it is for people to make their own bullets.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
NYbob 6/30/2021 10:55:00 PM (No. 831975)
Reading and Philadelphia. That, plus manipulated ballot box, gets you this kind of government.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bobn.t 6/30/2021 11:22:35 PM (No. 831984)
Another gun control proposal from a but bag scrot.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
bobn.t 6/30/2021 11:23:54 PM (No. 831986)
nut bag scrot
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 7/1/2021 12:52:27 AM (No. 832037)
Many tens of billion rounds manufactured EACH YEAR. And what about picking up a handful of someone else's cases on the range and tossing them down at a crime site?
Going to need at least 12 or 13 digits, MINIMUM, which is going to be tough to put onto short pistol cases. Easily removed, too, I'll bet.
Mind numbingly stupid idea.
Starting back in 1968, for about 10-12 years, all ammo sellers had to record the name, address, brand, caliber and quantity of ammo with each and every ammo purchase. None of it was ever used to solve crimes. Cops didn't care. After about 15 years of this stupid waste of time, all records were tossed and the waste of time was ended. Tracking ammunition is worse than tracking ants.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
LaVallette 7/1/2021 5:39:12 AM (No. 832114)
Governess deliberately tax people to control and limit what they are legally entitled to do. But the second amendment giving a constitutional right to bear arms has these key words "shall never be infringed" which "controls and limitations" by definition do!!!!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/1/2021 7:14:54 AM (No. 832175)
We rebelled against England over a bloody Postage Stamp tax. How far we have declined as a Free People. These Demonrats should be tarred and feathered for even speaking such heresy in our Land of Liberty. Enforce the laws and you won't have so much crime!
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