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Old 12-20-2012, 05:19 PM
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Originally Posted by jplinville View Post
Actually, you'd be surprised at the number of hunters and other gun owners that would agree to a small tax on ammunition or firearms sales, provided that the money would actually go to a program that insures this is taught. States already increased costs for range pass sales to help pay for range time, why not at a tax on that to go for the education as well?? I'm not talking about Billions of dollars here...just a few million to print posters to be hung in classrooms and the like.

Having those posters there would be a constant reminder to the students that they would see daily.

If you wanted to ramp it up to include a course on gun safety in the schools, then find a way to provide Federally operated ranges open to the public, and use revenue from that to fund those classes.
Ok, small tax on ammo sounds reasonable. Maybe also a small tax to pay for all the damage bullets cause, like with cigarettes. I'm sure hospitals would like to recoupe some of that.
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