Some advocates say a tax could be used as one policy lever in a holistic approach to ameliorating gun violence—not with the goal of keeping people from buying guns, but to claw back revenue from industry profits to raise billions for American communities.
Here is how advocates argue that a tax could be used as one policy lever in a holistic approach to ameliorating gun violence -- not with the goal of keeping people from buying guns, but rather to claw back revenue from industry profits to raise billions for American communities.
"Reasonable folks can disagree," Freilich told ABC News, discussing the viability of a gun tax,"but the courts have been pretty clear, and there's been the federal law in place -- really an analogous tax at the federal level -- for over a century." In Cook County, which includes Chicago, a similar $25 tax on firearm sales and up to a 5-cent tax on ammunition cartridges approved in 2012 was struck down by the Illinois Supreme Court earlier this month. The Illinois high court ruled that the taxes violate the uniformity clause of the state's constitution, which means the government must establish that the tax classification is substantially related to the object of the legislation.
"I don't know if those people are really the ones that are responsible for most gun violence, but that doesn't sound likely," he added."So an ammunition tax seems like it's misdirected." Smart's research for RAND has found there's little evidence on whether taxation affects gun violence, which is due, at least in part, to the fact it's been tried so infrequently.
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