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Role Model For The States
Aaron Spuler is a firearms enthusiast and recreational shooter. Follow more or his work at The Weapon Blog
I’m just going to go ahead and say a firm no.
A $1,000 per gun tax should serve as a “role model” for states, according to the governor of the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, which imposed the $1,000 gun tax earlier this month. An idea first endorsed by Hillary Clinton in 1993, steep gun taxes have now taken hold in Cook County, Ill. the city of Seattle, and now a U.S. territory.
As reported by the Saipan Tribune:
The administration of Gov. Ralph DLG Torres defended the CNMI’s new gun control laws on Friday as a law that could be “a role model” for other U.S. states and jurisdictions facing seemingly uncontrolled and continued gun violence.
The administration was responding to queries regarding its position on recent reports that the a legal challenge to the new law, Public law 19-42, was likely, particularly over a provision that assesses a $1,000 excise tax on pistols.
Read the rest of the article: http://www.atr.org/1000-gun-tax-pushed-role-model-states
Source: http://www.weapon-blog.com/2016/04/role-model-for-the-states/
