Chicago, in America’s heartland of the mid-west, is one of the largest cities in the nation and its gun owners are headed for some heartburn. If legislators get their way, both firearms and ammunition could be the target of a special new tax.
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is scrambling to come up with a $3 Billion (with a B) budget. The county and its cities have been struggling with poor tax revenues and a ballooning public expenditure. To erase a $115 million budget shortfall, Preckwinkle is targeting golfers, picnic attendees, smokers and others.
The ‘others’ are Chicago area gunowners. Hidden in the budget proposal is a levy on those who would buy firearms or ammunition. Reports state Preckwinkle wants to add a $0.05 per bullet ammunition tax, and $25 tax on guns.
Read the rest in my column at Firearms Talk
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Let me introduce myself. I am a bit of a conflict junkie. I am fascinated by war and warfare, assassination, personal protection and weaponry ranging from spud guns and flame throwers to thermonuclear bombs and soviet-trained Ebola monkeys. In short, if it’s violent or a tool to create violence it is kind of my thing.
I have written a few hundred articles on the dry encyclopedia side for such websites as History Times, Firearms Talk.com, GUNS.com, Suite 101 (where I am the contracted Feature Writer for Military History) and Combat Forums; as well as for print publications like England Expects, and Strike First Strike Fast. Several magazines such as Sea Classics, Military Historian and Collector, Mississippi Sportsman and Warship International have carried my pieces. Additionally I am on staff as a naval consultant and writer for Eye Spy Intelligence Magazine.
Currently I am working on several book projects, including a section in the upcoming Mississippi Encyclopedia (to be published by Ole Miss this summer), an alternative history novel about the US-German War of 1916, and a biography of Bennett Doty. My first novel, about the coming zombie apocalypse was released this Spring by Necro Publications and can be found at Amazon.com.
In my day job I am a contractor for the US federal government in what could best be described as the ‘Force Protection’ field. In this I am a certified Firearms, and less-than-lethal combat instructor.
