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Source: Reuters
"It is very important to us to tax guns because we know that guns are the sources of the incredible violence we have in our neighborhoods," Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle told a news conference. She said 29 percent of guns used in crimes in Chicago were purchased legally in suburban Cook County.
Under the plan, the county would impose a $25 tax on the purchase of firearms. The tax is expected to raise $600,000 in revenue in 2013. Preckwinkle abandoned a proposed tax o f 5 cents a bullet because the tax in some cases would have exceeded the price of ammunition.
If approved by the board, the nation's third most populous county with nearly 5.2 million residents c ould be the first major U.S. metropolitan area to impose a tax as a form of gun control, according to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/31/usa-guns-chicago-tax-idUSL1E8LVE9W20121031
This is a tax on citizens exercising one of their natural, inherent, unalienable rights.
SCOTUS may decide it's unconstitutional just like a poll tax.