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MO: NRA slams Missouri gun-tax plan to pay for police body cameras
Submitted by: Bruce W. Krafft
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"The National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups have hit back hard at one Missouri lawmakers plan to add a tax on guns sold in the state to pay for cameras for police officers."

"Brandon Ellington, a Democratic lawmaker representing the Kansas City region, introduced separate bills that would require all uniformed police officers to wear body cameras and maintain recordings for 30 days, and would establish a tax on firearm sales to pay for the new mandate, Guns.com reported."

"The tax would add a 1 percent cost to every retail sale of handguns and ammunition, with the proceeds sent to a new 'Peace Officer Handgun and Ammunition Sales Tax Fund,' Guns.com reported." ...

Comment by: -none- (1/14/2015)

driving a wedge between law enforcement and gun owners, even if they're his own constituents...punish the (usually conservative) white gun owner for (usually democrat/liberal welfare state) black crime. The law is an *ss.

Comment by: Millwright66 (1/14/2015)

One wonders at the "logic" of compelling legal gun owners/purchasers to pay for devices to document the actions of illegal gun possessors . If PBCs are determined necessary, then the costs ought to be shared equally among all citizens; law-abiding or criminal. The obvious way is via a sales tax on ordinary purchases even criminals make.

But, the, perhaps this legislator has accepted the premise, ( of some prominent social/government activists and, apparently our president) criminal elements are a "protected class" immune from the consequences of their activities.