07-01-2021, 12:21 AM
N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
[quote=Ted King]
[quote=N-OS X-tasy!]
It won't hold up constitutionally.
You are going to tax ALL gun owners - citizens who are exercising their constitutional right to own guns - to pay for costs incurred by the actions of a few bad eggs who happen to also own guns? Not a chance. This may initially pass, but in the end it will be found unconstitutional.
Don't we already allow sales taxes on guns (in places that have sales taxes) when a gun is purchased?
A sales tax is entirely different thing than an ownership liability tax.
But if a sales tax doesn't invoke Constitutional protection for gun owners, why would the Constitution prevent a "ownership liability tax"? What's the legal reasoning for the distinction that would hold up in court? Do you know of legal precedent of invoking Constitutional protection for a "ownership liability tax for gun owners" or is this based on your personal perspective?