In the mind of anti-2A zealots, it would seem that any way to go after our gun rights is a good idea. Never mind that those effort are unconstitutional. Never mind that gun control makes the world a more dangerous place. Never mind that anti-2A activists and politicians have to deceive people to push their agenda.
How they do it with a straight face is beyond me.
Now, given that they’ve had difficulty getting their gun control efforts to stay in place once taken to court, one state is trying a different way to make it harder for people in that state to legally own guns to protect their lives and the lives of their family members. Jana J. Pruet writes,
The National Rifle Association (NRA) has filed a lawsuit against California, challenging its new excise tax on firearm and ammunition sales.
The NRA, along with several second amendment advocacy groups, filed the lawsuit on Tuesday, July 2. They argue that the measure, which imposes an 11 percent excise tax on sales by firearms dealers, manufacturers, and ammunition vendors, violates the Second Amendment to the Constitution.
The new 11 percent tax went into effect one day prior. It is in addition to the 10 percent federal excise tax on wholesale prices for handguns and 11 percent on long guns and ammunition.
Last year, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law the first-of-its-kind excise tax, which was included in a package of bills aimed at strengthening gun safety laws.“California will keep fighting—because gun safety laws work,” the Democratic governor said in a statement after signing the package of bills.
“[Gun] safety laws work?” This from the hypocrite who mandated social distancing and masking during the COVID-19 pandemic while he and his friends got together at upscale restaurants without masks when those restaurants weren’t open to the rest of the public. And you can bet that his personal security detail has firearms on them.
It’s a rules-apply-to-thee-but-not-to-me situation for Newsom.
Which is the way that anti-2A politicians always handle guns. They want to disarm you and me while keeping firearms for themselves and the people protecting them (as if your life isn’t as worthy of saving as theirs is).
And why do they want to disarm you and I? So that we can’t stop them from doing the horrible things that they want to do to us. In the name of caring for us and for the downtrodden, of course. Or for the children.
Thankfully, lawsuits are already going after this attempt to disarm legal gun owners in California, but those lawsuits shouldn’t have needed to have been filed in the first place.
But we probably shouldn’t expect anything better from a hypocrite and would-be dictator like California Governor Gavin Newsom anyway.