Let's tax bullets as a form of gun control!

[Heffay]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/nyreg ... .html?_r=3

Yeah... I can't see this backfiring at all.

In 1993, a United States senator with one of the great political brains of 20th-century America, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, said that we ought to forget gun control as a way to stanch criminal violence. It was hopeless, Senator Moynihan pointed out: even if the sale of new guns was totally forbidden, there were already enough guns in homes and private hands to last the country for 200 years.

“These mostly simple machines last forever,” Mr. Moynihan said.

But he wasn’t through.

“On the other hand, we have only a three-year supply of ammunition.”

His solution: Increase the tax on bullets. He wouldn’t raise the tax on ammunition typically used for target shooting or hunting. But he proposed exorbitant taxes on hollow-tipped bullets designed to penetrate armor and cause devastating damage.

“Ten thousand percent,” Mr. Moynihan said.

I didn't know hollowpoints were designed to penetrate armor...

[acerpower]

They only penetrate armor if it's shot from a gun with the thing on the shoulder that goes up.

[Holland&Holland]

They only penetrate armor if it's shot from a gun with the thing on the shoulder that goes up.

That would be an AK-47 fully auto assault rifle with high capacity clips, bayonet, and a silencer, these are available at Walmart.

[Heffay]

They only penetrate armor if it's shot from a gun with the thing on the shoulder that goes up.

That would be an AK-47 fully auto assault rifle with high capacity clips, bayonet, and a silencer, these are available at Walmart.

Or legally from the gun show without an ID or background check.

[Rip Van Winkle]

They only penetrate armor if it's shot from a gun with the thing on the shoulder that goes up.

That would be an AK-47 fully auto assault rifle with high capacity clips, bayonet, and a silencer, these are available at Walmart.

Or legally from the gun show without an ID or background check.

Or you can get them for free if you can find where all the manufactures are dumping them on the street.

[redaudi]

anyone can make one with the simplest of hand tools.

[BemidjiDweller]

Or just tell Holder you are part of a Mexican Cartel.

[cobb]

“On the other hand, we have only a three-year supply of ammunition.”

I guess I missed who is we and where did they get that number?

[chunkstyle]

We already do tax ammo.

[Grayskies]

Wonder what they will do about people loading their own cast hollow points?

And are not round nose a tad more dangerous for self defense as they over penitrate more often?

[Sorcerer]

So target rounds wont kill. I beleave in WW1 or WW2 (may have been earlier or later) the world powers that be called for ball ammunition to be used in war as it created a more treatable wound. A wounded person takes more people to take care of than a dead one. So if I need to take more shots with target ammunition, I can work with that. By the way do they know if all the gang bangers use Hollow points. I want to see that data.

[bulletproof]

We already do tax ammo.

This!