Cook County Revives Gun, Ammo Tax After Legal Smackdown

[livingston]

Cook County Revives Gun, Ammo Tax After Legal Smackdown​

Just a couple of weeks after the Illinois Supreme Court declared that a tax on firearms and ammunition sales imposed by Cook County supervisors was null and void because it violated state law, the Democratic majority on the county’s board of supervisors voted on Thursday evening to reimpose the tax on gun owners, albeit with a couple of minor tweaks.


Now the board has amended the language to state that funds raised by the $25-per gun tax (with ammo being taxed at $0.05 per round of centerfire ammuntion and a penny per round of rimfire ammo) must be used for “programs or operations geared toward gun violence prevention,” though it sounds like no specific programs were named.

Cook County Revives Gun, Ammo Tax After Legal Smackdown

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[Deplorable Me]

Cook County Revives Gun, Ammo Tax After Legal Smackdown​

Just a couple of weeks after the Illinois Supreme Court declared that a tax on firearms and ammunition sales imposed by Cook County supervisors was null and void because it violated state law, the Democratic majority on the county’s board of supervisors voted on Thursday evening to reimpose the tax on gun owners, albeit with a couple of minor tweaks.


Now the board has amended the language to state that funds raised by the $25-per gun tax (with ammo being taxed at $0.05 per round of centerfire ammuntion and a penny per round of rimfire ammo) must be used for “programs or operations geared toward gun violence prevention,” though it sounds like no specific programs were named.

Cook County Revives Gun, Ammo Tax After Legal Smackdown

bearingarms.com

Gun violence prevention programs? Does that include mandatory sentences of violent and repeat offenders? I'm thinking empty words and no accountability in the execution of the plan.

 

[livingston]

NY will do the same with this lawsuit dealing with the Sullivan act ... Me thinks