10-31-2016, 02:01 PM
(10-31-2016, 01:50 PM)BlueTiki Wrote: Since the government taxes every goddamned thing, ever wonder why ammo isn't taxed like cigs or sugary drinks?
The right to possess ammo ain't addressed in the 2nd Amendment.
Ammo kills people . . .
I hadn't thought about it before, Tiki, but it's a good question.
I just looked it up and the government is collecting a lot of revenue from a manufacturer excise tax though.
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The Treasury’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau collects a 10 percent tax on ammo sales and a roughly 10 percent tax on gun sales. In both cases, the government taxes the manufacturers, not the retailers. Data provided to Vocativ from the agency shows how the surge in weapons-buying during the Obama administration has generated unprecedented levels of revenue for federal coffers. The money is later earmarked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Federal taxes on guns and ammo reached a high of $875 million in 2013, the year following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings. The deadly spree, which left 27 dead, touched off a wave of panic about the possiblity of tighter gun-control laws. Ammo tax receipts alone for that year, roughly $255 million, were nearly double the 1991 tax receipts for handguns, long guns and ammo combined.
http://www.vocativ.com/usa/guns/the-gove...mmo-sales/