Democrat candidate for governor in Florida, Chris King, wants to impose a tax on ammunition.   Keep in mind there is already a federal Firearms and Ammunition Excise Tax (FAET) that taxes ammo at 11%.

But there is no problem the Democrats can’t solve by taxing and spending a bit more.

The reason is offensive as fuck.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris King rolled out a bold gun violence prevention plan Friday that would create a fund designated to research, school safety and intervention programs.

The “Every Kid Fund” for Gun Violence Prevention would have three sources, King said during a roundtable discussion at Allendale United Methodist Church: sales tax revenue from gun and ammunition purchases, a 6 percent “safety fee” on the sale of ammunition, and revenue generated from aspects of King’s criminal justice reform plan.

He’s going to punitively tax law abiding gun owners in order to fund a program that undermines gun rights.

I lived in the Chicago suburbs when Cook County imposed its gun tax and attempted to impose an ammo tax.  Cook county charges $25 per gun sold in taxes.  There was an attempt to tax ammo at a rate of $0.05 per round, but that fell through when there was enough push back as the tax on 22 LR was more than the cost of 22 LR (this was before the great 22 drought).

That tax money goes to a fund to pay for the hospital bills of uninsured criminals who got shot in Chicago’s unending gang wars.

Cook County Board President Tony Preckwinkle proposed the tax in October “with no apologies” saying the money would go toward offsetting the high cost taxpayers shoulder as a result of gun violence.

“There are responsible gun owners in Cook County who use firearms for either protection or recreation,” NBC Chicago reports Preckwinkle saying at the time. “However, the social and economic cost of the criminal and irresponsible use is very high. As a result, Cook County residents are paying for the negative impact of a product that only a small portion our population uses.”

So law abiding gun owners who go to federally licensed gun stores to show ID, an Illinois issued FOID, and undergo a 4473/NICS check are paying taxes to cover the hospital needs of gang members shot with illegally possessed guns.

It was offensive as fuck when they passed it and it’s still offensive as fuck.

It also is one of two reason the Cabela’s in Hoffman Estates sucks and is nearly dead.  Between the gun tax and the “screw you” that Cook County did to Cabela’s on retail space tax the entire upstairs is closed off, the restaurant is gone, and the gun counter and library are just about empty.  Unless you were a Cabela’s card holder, it’s less in gas to drive to the Bass Pro in Bollingbrook or Gurnee Mills than the $25 gun tax and $10.25% sales tax in Cook County.

Now that Cabela’s and Bass Pro have merged, I expect the Hoffman Estates Cabela’s to close because of Cook County anti-gun fuckery.

Chris King is not the only Democrat politician doing this.  Democrats across the nation are proposing taxes on guns and ammo explicitly to fund anti-gun action.

Seattle put in place an ammo tax for the same reason as Chicago.

Sellers covered by the tax include individuals, sporting-goods stores and pawnshops. Around the time the City Council passed the tax of $25 per firearm and 2 to 5 cents per round of ammunition in 2015, there were 40 federal firearms licensees in the city, including two brick-and-mortar stores dedicated to gun sales.

The council established the tax to fund gun-violence research at Harborview Medical Center, saying treatment of gunshot victims there costs taxpayers many millions of dollars each year.

After a study found that gunshot survivors were 21 times more likely than people hospitalized for other reasons to return with another gunshot wound, researchers now provide some gunshot survivors with services ranging from substance-abuse and mental-health treatment to job assistance.

No fucking shit.  They are criminals and gang members.  Seattle is taxing hunters and target shooters to pay for the medical costs of drug dealers shooting each other.

This is the Democrat plan.  Not just will law abiding gun owners have to give up their rights because of the decisions made by criminals but law abiding gun owners have to pay to treat and care for these criminals who cost us our civil rights.

It is as fucking offensive an idea as could be implemented.  It shows you just how much these motherfuckers love criminals and hate gun owners.

Courts in Washington (State) and Illinois have upheld these taxes.  If it becomes law in Florida, it will most likely stand.

Maybe the GOP should propose a $5,000 per abortion tax and use it to fund abstinence only education and adoption centers.  At least that actually has the potential to save lives worth saving, as opposed to patching up drug dealers who will shoot or get shot some more.

“I hate you and so I will make you pay for your destruction” is no a policy that a governor should be elected on.

Floridians can’t let this come to pass.