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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You could tax the shit out of guns, I suppose. Make them crazy expensive.

Our problem in DC is guns flowing in from Virginia.

Really we just need to repeal the 2nd amendment. [/quote]

It is really hard to legislate gun control because there are too many people with moderate to conservative views who believe that gun rights outweigh gun control issues and they don't want "slippery slope" issues.

The above PP has the right idea...a tax.  But the way to make it more pervasive is not to tax guns, but to tax ammunition.  Put a heavy tax on ammunition, per bullet.  If you add a tax of $5 per bullet, this gets closer to the desired effect.  You are going to have less impact on low capacity hunting rifles and more of an impact on high capacity cartridges.  We've been trying to legislate that higher capacity cartridges or weapons are the problem, but there has even been pushback on those.  So tax it.  Add $100 to the price of a cartridge of ammunition for a multi-round cartridge and see how willing they are to use those devices.
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Because there’s no way anybody somewhere else would manufacture ammunition and ship it to the taxing jurisdiction?  Because nobody would smuggle ammunition precisely the way they smuggle cigarettes between States?  Because there would never be any diversion from “legitimate” shipments to other markets, as with pharmaceuticals?

Fantasyland. Do you actually think criminals buy ammunition at the local gun store?  They don’t. Confiscated guns are routinely found partially loaded, loaded with a mix of mismatched ammunition, loaded with the wrong ammunition, etc. [/quote]

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