Ritter proposes Tax on Gun Owners
From the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners web site:
Ritter proposes Tax on Gun Owners
Click here to sign our Petition against Ritter’s Gun Tax!
Colorado’s Brady Act was passed in 2000 under a Republican-controlled legislature and Governor. You can read more about it here.
“Now, Governor Ritter wants to put a tax on that registration as well. He might just as well repeal our State Constitution’s protections,” said Brown, “since they don’t seem to matter to him.”
Colorado uses a “Baby Brady” Registration system system to check purchasers’ backgrounds. This puts gun owners in double jeopardy, since they must go through the FBI check as well as that of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. If Colorado’s Brady Act was repealed, the FBI would conduct Brady Registration Checks, which wouldn’t cost Colorado citizens and would shorten the wait time to 30 seconds — as opposed to CBI checks, which often take hours.
“But even with a smaller number, he’s forcing citizens who practice a constitutionally protected right to pay a tax first, much like the old Jim Crow laws,” said Brown. “We don’t believe gun owners should have to ask permission to buy a firearm in the first place, and we’re now supposed to pay for their gun control?”
“The Governor’s office is using estimates for firearms purchases based on recent purchase numbers, and it highly inflates the number,” said the Dudley Brown, the Executive Director of the largest pro-gun organization in Colorado, Rocky Mountain Gun Owners. Since the election of Barack Obama the number of firearms sales have skyrocketed across the nation.
Colorado Governor Bill Ritter this week proposed a $10 per purchase tax on gun owners to pay for Brady Registration Checks.
Click here to sign our Petition against Ritter’s Gun Tax!
Though this idea has been rejected by both Republican and Democrat controlled legislatures, Ritter now claims it will bring $500,000 to state coffers.
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