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Ritter’s Colorado Gun Tax

by | 7:25 am, August 19, 2009 | 2 Comments


As if the Car Tax, Property Tax, and many other taxes weren’t enough, Bill Ritter wants more of your hard-earned cash. What’s this Levy Genius’ newest plan? This week, with the Brain Train coming, Governor Ritter strapped himself to the clever tracks and decided that he’s going to tax every Colorado firearm sale $10 – and justifies it by promising that it will go toward Brady Registration Checks. Furthermore the Valedictorian of Tariffs claims his newest tax will yield $550,000 toward his unbalanced budget of $500 million.

As usual, math isn’t Ritter’s strong suit. Dudley Brown, the Executive Director of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, points out some fiscal and moral problems in Governor Taxalot’s plan, “The Governor’s office is using estimates for firearms purchases based on recent purchase numbers, and it highly inflates the number. Since the election of Barack Obama the number of firearms sales have skyrocketed across the nation.”

“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,” Brown continued. “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?”

Ritter’s out of control with all of his taxes. Contact Ritter now and tell him you don’t approve of his gun tax and then throw him out of office at next year’s election before he can do anymore damage to our state. Ask yourself this, you fine Colorado citizen: will you find yourself as the next innovative tax target of the Governor running Colorado (into the ground)? If he’s moved on to attacking constitutionally-protected rights of certain groups of citizens, then perhaps his next genius idea’s going to be instituting a poll tax on Jews and blacks to raise another couple hundred million dollars for his budget shortfall? How about taxing Christians and Asians when they want to publish books or newspapers in Colorado? Or maybe if whites and Muslims want a speedy trial, then they can be forced to pay a Governor Ritter Speedy Trial Tax?

I digress. A big thanks to Rocky Mountain Gun Owners for bringing this to our attention. Head over to RMGO to sign the petition against Governor Ritter’s Gun Tax.

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Comments

  1.   T.L. James
      August 19th, 2009 @ 10:15 pm

    Hmm…at $10 a pop, Blue-Ribbon Bill could balance that $500 shortfall this year on gun sales alone if he somehow enticed every Coloradan of eligible age and felony-free status (say, 3.5M citizens) to purchase (on average) 143 firearms apiece.

    That would be an interesting social experiment.

  2.   Kyle
      September 1st, 2009 @ 10:42 am

    Let us examine a few faults in Ritter’s plan. Firstly, he vetoed the Brady Bypass Bill that would have removed the requirement to have a background check for those with CCW permits from Colorado, thereby keeping the CBI (Colorado Bureau of Investigation) and NCIC check mandatory for all purchasers (setting us up). Now he complains that the system can’t sustain itself and needs to charge a fee to those using the system. Had the Brady Bypass Bill passed, it would have significantly reduced the workload on CBI to do the checks. Additionally, CBI can just be cut out of the loop entirely. The Brady Bill requires an FBI background check, and Colorado law requires that CBI do a check as well. If CBI were cut out of the loop then your local gun store would simply call the FBI directly for your check and the process would take about 5 to 10 minutes. As it stands, your local gun shop has to get on their computer, send your info to CBI, CBI sends it to the FBI, and you have to wait on BOTH checks, one of which isn’t required by federal law. If Ritter were really interested in saving money he would just do away with the CBI portion, but that would remove some of his control over the people of Colorado.

    Want another kick below the belt? Colorado has one of the highest rates of false denials for background checks in the country. That means that if you buy a firearm and get denied it’s probably a clerical or other error on the part of CBI. Yes, you may have been approved by the FBI portion of the check but been denied by CBI because someone with a name similar to yours was in trouble, or because they don’t like a non-disqualifying offense in your youth (or something else). Even worse than that, I have seen actual prohibited people be denied and just not get their gun. This means that they committed a crime by being a prohibited person and trying to buy a gun, CBI knows about it, and nothing happens to these people. However, if you have unpaid parking, speeding, or other tickets, the police will come right to the dealer and arrest you on the spot. I’ve seen this THREE times thus far. One guy was because he hadn’t paid a ticket for his dog doing its business in a public park and he didn’t pick it up in a timely manor. You see, if they can get money from you they’ll enforce the law, if they can’t… So the CBI check is a failing program and Ritter wants you to pay for the privilege of being screwed by it.

    My questions to any and all readers is this: How much does CBI spend on the background check system that the state could save if the program were done away with? What are the complete and verifiable stats on the CBI program? Confront these people with FACTS!! It’s the only way we’ll win the war for Liberty.

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