Washington state lawmakers are pushing yet another measure intended to restrict our Second Amendment rights under the guise of trying to fix a serious societal issue. In this case, they introduced a measure that would place an extra tax on ammo, then use the revenue to prevent suicides and domestic violence.
KTTH radio political commentator Jason Rantz noted:
State Representatives My-Linh Thai and Liz Berry, both Democrats, introduced House Bill 2238. Under the auspices of public safety, claiming access to ammunition is the cause of violence and not their soft-on-crime policies that go easy on criminals (including those who use guns in their crimes), the bill imposes an 11% sales and use tax on ammunition statewide.
The text of the bill notes that gun crime “remains a persistent health and safety threat for people across our state,” and that “in Washington, a person is killed…
