The city council in San Jose, California has voted to impose a new tax on gun owners in the city. Failure to comply with the new tax will result in gun confiscation.
This is an obvious attempt to exert a form of gun control through punishment.
Breck Dumas reports at FOX Business:
San Jose to tax gun owners, will confiscate firearms for noncomplianceGun owners in San Jose, California, will soon face a yearly tax and be required to carry additional insurance after their city council voted unanimously Tuesday evening to impose the new measures.The forthcoming fee for gun ownership in the city has not yet been determined, but officials said that anyone found to be in noncompliance will have their weapons confiscated.The city council’s aim is to try to recoup the cost of responding to gun incidents such as shootings and deaths. According to the Pacific Council on Research and Evaluation, which studied the issue and sent a representative to testify before the panel, gun-related incidents cost the city roughly $63 million every year in the way of paying for police officers, medics and other expenses, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.The new measures come just weeks after a disgruntled Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority employee gunned down and killed nine colleagues at a San Jose railyard.San Jose-based FOX 2 reported that citizens weighed in on the proposal, with some praising the council for the measure and others condemning the move as unconstitutional.”I strongly oppose more taxation on legal gun owners,” San Jose resident Sasha Sherman told the council. “Each time a gun owner buys ammunition, they pay an 11% tax, plus a background check fee.”
So the logic here is to charge law abiding gun owners for the actions of criminals? That makes absolutely no sense.
This tweet is from Sam Liccardo, the mayor of San Jose:
The city also wants to force gun owners to carry liability insurance.
The Associated Press reports:
San Jose to require gun owners to carry liability insuranceSan Jose officials have passed the first law in the nation that requires gun owners to carry liability insurance and pay a fee to cover taxpayers’ costs associated with gun violence.The new law was unanimously approved by the City Council on Tuesday, a month after a disgruntled San Jose rail yard employee fatally shot nine of his co-workers and then himself at the rail yard, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.Mayor Sam Liccardo praised the measures and said gun owners who do not comply with the new rules shouldn’t have guns.“We won’t magically end gun violence, but we stop paying for it,” Liccardo said in a statement.
This is gun control, plain and simple. The city of San Jose is saying that if they can’t just take your guns, they will make it extremely difficult for you to keep them.
CLICK HERE FOR FULL VERSION OF THIS STORY