Seattle City Council President & Democrat, Tim Burgess, Wants Poll Tax on Guns

Seattle City Council President Tim Burgess
Seattle City Council President Tim Burgess (D), in the middle of a re-election campaign, wants to put extra taxes on guns and ammo in Washington’s largest city
National Shooting Sports Foundation
National Shooting Sports Foundation

NEWTOWN, Conn –-(Ammoland.com)- National Shooting Sports Foundation is standing in strong opposition to a proposal from Seattle City Council President Tim Burgess to begin taxing the sale of every firearm and round of ammunition made in the city in order to fund “gun violence prevention programs.”

As National Shooting Sports Foundation Senior Vice President and General Counsel Larry Keane told Guns.com, “The National Shooting Sports Foundation will vigorously oppose this misguided attempt to blame the lawful and regulated commerce in firearms and ammunition products for the violent acts of criminal. The proposed tax is nothing but a poll tax on the exercise of a fundamental civil liberty protected by the Second Amendment.”

The tax would be assessed at $25 on each firearm and 5 cents on each round of ammunition. This would be on top of combined state and local retail taxes that near 9.6 percent already.

The Seattle City Council is expected to take up this so-called “Gun Violence Tax” ordinance next Wednesday, July 15 2015. It will have no effect on decreasing gun violence. It is designed to place a huge burden on legitimate firearms retailers and law-abiding gun owners. Additionally, the proposed ordinance is a gross violation of Washington’s firearms preemption statute.

The City Council is not stopping with the guns and ammo tax – members are also considering an ordinance that has the potential of turning victims of thefts into inadvertent criminals. Once again proposed by Council President Burgess, the “Stolen Firearms” ordinance would require law-abiding gun owners to report a firearm lost or stolen within 24 hours or be subject to a $500 fine.

Please contact the Seattle City Council today and urge them to oppose these misguided proposals. Emails can be sent to [email protected].

National Shooting Sports Foundation will keep you posted on all developments. For a good perspective, listen to Seattle radio personality Dave Boze’s commentary.

About NSSFThe National Shooting Sports Foundation is the trade association for the firearms industry. Its mission is to promote, protect and preserve hunting and the shooting sports. Formed in 1961, NSSF has a membership of more than 6,000 manufacturers, distributors, firearms retailers, shooting ranges, sportsmen’s organizations and publishers. For more information, log on to www.nssf.org.

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f.t.

Simple solution for gun owners. Don’t buy a thing that they tax in town. I’m sure you can get guns and ammo in some other nearby town. This will not make the gun shops happy and maybe they will band together and file some sort of a class action suit against this guy or the town council or anyone they can for lost income, viol of 2nd Amendment RIGHTS, and whatever a clever lawyer can come up with.

Maluka

Seattle is just another san francisco.. Full of fruits, nuts and flakes. This guy is obviously anti constitution and must be a communist too.

Jim

Jest a pile of sh&t dems dont ever vote for one

james

Time to take Seattle and all other anit gun cities off the business and vacation list.

JoeUSooner

Be fair… Obama was not born in Africa. However, he certainly IS a bastard [his parents were not legally married], a Muslim, a seditionist, a traitor, a liar, an incompetent leader, and a Marxist. But African-born? Nope

Grant

I would go for this if a poll tax of $25.00 were required for a citizen to vote here in America. The right to arms and the right to vote are both equally important so let’s tax the exercise of both of them. This way another democrat will never win another election.

TEX

It’s way past time just to run this liberal trash out of the U.S.on a fu*cking rail ! It’s going to take very aggressive action on the part of law-abiding firearms owners to end this nonsense and shut this scum up once and for all. We have got to this point because of that African born Muslim scum destroying the White House,and the country. (After Hussein Obama leaves the White House it might have to be razed (torn down and rebuilt) !

Janek

When you see Democrats like this guy do you every wonder who the real Fascists are?

Digs

This poor excuse of an American has a two problems, his beard is not black and he can not join isis till it doses