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Jan 21 2025

Shooting Themselves in the Foot on Ammo Tax

Joe Biden is finally out of the White House, but his legacy of lawlessness may live on in deep blue pockets like Cook County, Illinois (i.e., greater Chicago). Remember when Biden defied the Supreme Court to buy votes by forcing us to pay off other people’s student loans? Here’s how that tyrannical attitude is applied to unconstitutional restrictions on the right to bear arms:

Guns Save Life … filed a lawsuit challenging the gun and ammo tax shortly after it was enacted in 2015. That case went all the way to the Illinois Supreme Court which ruled in 2021 that the tax ordinance was unconstitutional.

Cook County responded with stall tactics until…

…about a week ago, a Cook County trial court judge struck down the ordinance, again at the direction of the Illinois Supreme Court.

The county remains defiant. This could be a good thing:

Ultimately, if Cook County wants to continue to act like petulant children as a result of their loss, this case could end up in front of the US Supreme Court. If that happens and SCOTUS rules our way on the Second Amendment count within the suit, that could mean an end of gun and ammo surtaxes nationwide.

Good thing we don’t have to worry about Democrats packing the court for a few years.

Ammo taxes are especially egregious violations of the Second Amendment because they are unlikely to have any effect on crime. The purpose is to punish law-abiding citizens who use firearms for sporting purposes. Progressives don’t like America’s gun culture — for the obvious reason that people with guns can defend themselves.

On a tip from R F.


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