Bullet Tax?: Baltimore Mayoral Candidate Offers Unusual Crime Prevention Plan
- Posted on July 19, 2011 at 2:53pm by
Buck Sexton
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If you plan to go shooting in Baltimore, it might be a little more expensive come this September.
WBAL-TV is reporting that Baltimore mayoral candidate Otis Rolley has unveiled a new proposal to add a $1 bullet tax to each round sold within city limits. This would be part of Rolley’s multi-pronged strategy to reduce crime in Baltimore, which also includes better training and standards for the Baltimore Police Department, working with the media to raise awareness of suspects at large, and reducing the number of vacant properties in the city.
Rolley, a Democrat who previously served as Baltimore’s planning director, believes a bullet tax will specifically decrease random shootings around the city during holidays — and just generally up the price tag on gun related crimes.
“While the courts have consistently ruled against significant gun control legislation,” his plan states, “there is still a way to decrease crime: substantially increase the cost of its commission.”
It adds, “Increasing the cost of guns won’t work, because many criminals don’t purchase new guns, and they can be borrowed or even rented in some areas.”
Currently, 50 rounds of 9mm ammunition online looks to cost around $15.
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Comments (260)
oldeagle101
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:14pmI buy my ammo on line from USA ammo…problem solved.
Report Post »Havok
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:22pmWhy not just drive out of town???????
Report Post »These guys are retards.
They are just punishing business owners in a recession.
progressiveslayer
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:28pmThe progressive will just tax online sales,no the answer is to get rid of progressives at the ballot box.Maryland is infested with progressives so it might be impossible to vote them out,it all depends if the takers outnumber the makers.California is gone that’s for sure.
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:35pmCome on now…..retarded people are smarter than this.
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:37pmWhat the……this site self censors? Why did my post get ****** when HAVOK‘s wasn’t?
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:52pmOpps! Too late. I’ve already got hundreds of rounds! And I’m an excellent shot. Too bad so sad.
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:56pmAnd here we go again — let’s raise the price of ammo to law-abiding citizens never thinking about the fact that criminals steal that same ammunition so something tells me they won’t care much about a new tax.
Idiots
Report Post »booger71
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:58pmYour right Havok, new ammo places will pop up just outside the city limits.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 4:06pmDoes this commie REALLY expect to be elected to anything? In NY or CA maybe, but Baltimore?
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 4:11pmAnd once again the libs and progressives attack law abiding citizens gun rights by taxing each bullet a dollar. Morons this will not stop the criminals from getting ammo, since they can’t legaly own a gun or are by definition a criminal, they will steal it. by keeping the law abiding citizens from buying ammo, you put them a a larger risk of violent in home crimes. History has proven this time and time again. Criminals don’t care about laws.
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 4:25pmCome on people’s….how am I gonna afford a drive by with my 223′s be costin so much….
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 4:36pmHow any can anyone place a tax on a Constitutional right. More over one could argue and win that the FCC requiring media industries purchases permits and following regulations reguarding what is acceptable speech for certain media formats is a voilation of the first amendment. The liberals keep pushing and they’ll end up on their asses….and it won’t be long.
Report Post »enemy of the statist
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 4:42pmWhat kind of number crunching did Otis use to come up with $1.00 per bullet? How about 10 cents? $2.00? $1,776???
Well the only answer is $0.00. Or maybe a nickle deposit on casings? Then the homeless can gather them up for booze money.
Report Post »IronSights
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 4:48pmThe policy and reasoning behind it is just stupid by design. A frontal lobotomy must be a pre-requisite to getting into political office at all levels.
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 5:22pmYeah, and it is also so very difficult to take a bus out of Baltimore to buy your ammo. Basically it will just devastate sportsmans’ shops and ranges inside of the city limits, and create a new black market for ammo. Great idea, that will solve everything.
On a separate note, how do I know when I have enough ammo?
Report Post »quicker
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:18pmI reload my own.Also can mold my own buttets.
Report Post »Seabee79
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:38pmreload your own, problem solved
Report Post »Kalish
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:40pmOf course it’s a farking democrat !
Report Post »MicForever
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:46pmMaryland isn’t real smart. They raised the sales tax and levied a tax on millionaires and wonder why their tax revenue goes down. Millionaires can live anywhere. They don’t have to live in state that levies a special tax on them. It’s time for the those pulling the wagon to leave Maryland. We did.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 8:42pmI know this statement here is redundant but, criminals steal guns; and so they will steal ammo; or they will get it on the black-market like cigarettes. The tax only punishes and robs the law-abiding.
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:24pm…stole the idea from Chris Rock..pathetic.
Next.. the $1,000 dollar bullet
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on July 20, 2011 at 12:15amDo they have a tax on the Snakeheads yet?
Report Post »nptden
Posted on July 20, 2011 at 2:23amAnother pinko commie, trying to take our right to arms. What we need in the entire country, is a ‘Concealed Carry’ law.
Report Post »KUjayhawk
Posted on July 20, 2011 at 8:24amChris Rock thought up this plan on one of his comedy tours… wow what a great solution, lol!!!
Report Post »Bill
Posted on July 20, 2011 at 9:28amHow can someone be so stupid to think this will make any difference. It is just a excuse to collect more taxes.
Report Post »nysparkie
Posted on July 20, 2011 at 11:04amOLDEAGLE: I was at Ft. Campbell from 72 to 76. 2/320th FA. How about you?
Report Post »nysparkie
Posted on July 20, 2011 at 11:10amOLDEAGLE101; I was at Ft. Campbell from 72 to 74. 2/320thFA. When were you with the Eagles?
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on July 20, 2011 at 1:13pmhahahaha I’ll be ebaying my ammo if it gets worse. Good create a jobs opp for the black market…no big deal here.
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on July 20, 2011 at 2:33pm@ drphil69
Report Post »You know you have enough ammo…. when the garage is full and the underground bunker is full as well.
GOTT-EM-MAUSER
Posted on July 20, 2011 at 11:29pmAll this would do is get more Cops killed. Every Police Car is a veritable rolling wharehouse of ammo. Most will have at least a couple hundred rounds on board, many have substantially more than that, several thousand rounds in some cases. At a buck a round+the base cost of the ammo, the thuggers would be making a really good score for every bubblegum machine they could crack and empty. I doubt they would hesitate to “Deal With” anybody that tried to stop them, Police or otherwise.
Report Post »GOTT-EM-MAUSER
Posted on July 20, 2011 at 11:41pm@Drphil69,
There is no such thing as “ENOUGH” Ammo, one firefight will give a whole new meaning to that concept. When the Crunch hits Ammo will be like your 401K, and worth times more than anything you ever paid for it. You won’t be able to buy a loaf of bread for money, gold or silver, But Ammo will be the number one Barter medium. I call it my 401G (gun) account. Been adding to it for 20 years now, and every round has appreciated way better than what the Money Jews have ever paid on their Phony Dollar investment scams.
Report Post »Buy all you can, as often as you can, and put it away. You are going to need it here pretty shortly.
anthrax13
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 7:20amCan you put a price on PEACE?
Report Post »NotFooled
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:13pmThe drug dealers will still be able to buy more Ammo then the Middle Class. You only punish law abiding people with idiotic taxes.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 5:00pmYou are right that the folkswill just drive to another city or buy from thr Sportsman catalog online. What ticks me off is this make another run on amo. Most gun Mfg‘s and amo mfg’s are working 24/7 and can’t keep up with demand. I got caught with low amo when obama was elected but not no more. Here in our town the Remington amo plant has hired over 50 employees since 2008. Overtime in volantary and because of the ercession most employees work on Sat and Sunday evening after church. The amo plant in McAlister, Oklahoma is the same way except they won’t pay double time on sunday.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:42pmIn the Dallas area we have a talk show host called John David Wells, The Wells Report. He just yesterday or the day before did a fun thing where he had people call in and suggest how a liberal would fix this economy. One guy actually suggested that they would start taxing bullets. Funny, huh? Liberals would tax air if they could….oh wait, they already want to through the cap and trade.
Report Post »jackbauer
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 8:00pmTurkey13, those must be the jobs Obama was talkin of creating! I guess it’s a good time to be selling beans and bullets. At least a lot of folks are investing in them, counting on them being worth gold if SHTF.
Report Post »MT_Headed
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:13pmSo a box of 100 45′s would cost you about $20 plus a $100 dollar tax, plus sales tax… Stupid idea… make your own bullets is CHEAPER anyway. Now they have a really good incentive to mass produce their bullets, and even sell them for a HUGE profit.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:36pmYeah, they did say $1 per round. Surely that‘s a misprint and they’re not that stupid.
Report Post »texasfarmer
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 4:04pmSplit the cost with your friends for a Dillon loader setup and hand load. Split up the storage of powder and you are set for years. The government is such a bunch of loosers.
Report Post »agameofthrones
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 4:20pmI hope there is a “How to Make Your Own Bullets” instuctional video out there on Youtube!
Report Post »TX_45_ACP
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 4:23pmThese tards don’t understand the free market.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 4:38pm@TX_45_ACP—The thing is they do understand the free market. They just don’t like it.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:12pmi tried to read this story Blaze but the blood shooting from my eyes makes it impossible. otis is a jackass.
Report Post »Bloody Sam
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:18pmWell….lemme see.
If that is the actual language this guy wants to use, then he should do it.
A tax on bullets. That will only affect people who do their own reloading.
I, for one, do not buy bullets. I buy cartridges.
Report Post »TX_45_ACP
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 5:16pmI guess this will only hurt the reloaders. :)
Report Post »wildbill_b
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 8:12pmActually you just go to tire shops buy the old wheel weights and melt them down in a pot flux out the tins then use a hand mold to make your own “bullets”. problem solved. It is after all, an integral part of “reloading”.
Report Post »Bill from NJ
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:12pmThis just amazes me of how these morons keep getting elected.
When will the American people finally wake up and stop this foolishness of putting idiots into political office.
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:32pmThey will never wake up until we put a bunch of them to sleep, permanently.
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:12pmoh my. RELOAD.. wow thats insane 1 dollar a round tax? I would be the one going to the NEXT town to buy my bullets or I would RELOAD.. I think its insane that I currently have to pay 18 dollars for 50 rounds Thank God my brother reloads for me.
I do not see this tax passing because there are enough NRA members with LOUD voices to stop it
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 5:29pmNot much NRA in Baltimore City. Most of the state is highly progressive, and Baltimore has been the murder capital of the country in the recent past… it is a small city and they average ~1 murder per day.
Report Post »azjeff1963
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:12pmit will never work….Americans will RELOAD literally!!! so FOAD
Report Post »leader30m
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:12pmAnother Liberal MORON……..folks when are you going to get tired of these idiots and stop electing them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Southernguy
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 7:32pmSoon, I hope ;)
Report Post »ThomRaasio
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:11pmTypical STUPID, STUPID, STUPID, STUPID …..POLITICIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He just laid a HUGE TAX on “law abiding” citizens and endangered more residents of the state who will not or cannot pay a $50.00 TAX for buying 50 bullets!!!!!! The CRIMINALS…including this STUPID, STUPID!!!! Governor, will simply buy their bullets out of state!!!!!! CRIMINALS AR CRIMINALS because they are LAW BREAKERS!!!! Quit making laws AGAINST the innocent populace you A—HOLES!!!! We don’t need YOU or the COPS to protect us fom the “criminals”. They’re of less danger to us than Politicians and Cops!!!!
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:54pmTell us how you really feel..
Report Post »FranklinK
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:11pmThis is stupidity at its pinnacle! I guess that I’ll open an ammo shop right outside the city limits.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:10pmHow about a “Stupid Tax?” They would make a killing in Baltimore.
Report Post »Uncle Tom
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:10pmStart stocking up now, Marylanders.
Report Post »oriondma05
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:10pmTime to use a wrist rocket and metal marbles.
Report Post »azjeff1963
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:22pmi was a pretty good shot with mine when i was younger, pretty sure i can still pick off a cig but at 18′
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:09pmWe know that criminals always pay their taxes.
What a lying sack of excrement this pantload mayor is. He knows this has nothing to do with reducing crime.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:15pmThis is a joke…right? I guess Nazis were serious as well. WTF is going on? This madness must be stopped!
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:57pmIsles, you’re totally right. Criminals with UNREGISTERED hand guns, can’t walk into a gun store and buy ammo and pay tax on it. They buy illegal ammo. If they’re using shell buyers (no pun intended), they’re not going to have a problem marking up their drugs to pay for high cost ammo.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:09pmi was reading about this on the drudge report. this mayor canitdate maybe the biggest dummie of them all. how can a $1 a bullett tax lower crime in baltimore? i didn’t know gang bangers went to there local gun shop or walmart to buy ammo. if you vote for this dumb ass your a bigger dummie than him. a box of fifty and a tax of $50.00. how can the gang bangers afford this? this tax is for the law abbiding. you can have your guns but you can’t afford the ammo. the progressives love it.
Report Post »DNoyce
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:08pmJust a thinly disguised move to restrict guns. Honest gun owners will have to pay extra for their right to own and use their guns. Gun toting criminals won’t give a damn about this new tax because they will probably steal their ammo anyway. Why are progressives soooo stupid?
Report Post »Briggston
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:07pmCass sunstein’s plan in action. Nudge the people to what you want and make their choices for them. A little nudge here a little nudge there. Point and case- We know from his history Cass Sunstein despises the 2nd amendment right to bare arms. He knows he can never get a law to eliminate the 2nd amendment. So what does he do simple 1st he promotes regulations that hamper gun and ammunition manufacturers which drives up the cost of production this is passed on to the consumer in order to maintain a profit. Result fewer products are sold because of increased price resulting in fewer gun owners and ammunition supplies. 2nd make regulations to own fire arms more costly and time consuming so as to discourage applicants from attempting to gain permits. Result less people apply or purchase specific fire arms. 3rd Promote media biased reporting to sway public opinion to discourage potential gun owners from purchasing for fear of public opinion. Last frame and cast blame at gun retailers to press them out of business with public prejudice even using the DOJ to launder weapons into criminal hands solely to entrap retailers and gun rights advocates into looking negative in the public eye. Final result less gun owners and guns making it easier to ratify legislation to finally eliminate an amendment that is no longer relevant because you have manipulated (motivated) the choices.You can motivate people all you want when you are the one limiting and manipulating the choices.
Report Post »yanki161
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:06pmI think Otis has a new aide named Chris Rock.
Report Post »thorkyl
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:06pmTaxing bullets will do nothing.
Criminals don’t reload their rounds, they steal them.
This guy is so ignorant he calls a round a bullet.
Report Post »The bullet is the projectile.
JD Carp
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:06pmI have never heard anything so absolutely stupd in my entire life.
Report Post »its_time_to_arrest_our_government
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:31pmWhat you haven‘t herd any of Obama’s speeches?
Report Post »Southernguy
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 7:31pmlmaoooooooooooooooo
Report Post »ICANHANDLETHETRUTH
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:03pmWow this clown is a freakin geneous, of course he is a liberal dem. It will just hurt the local venders….. they will just buy them OUT OF City Limits …………… Duhhh
Report Post »RAS
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:12pmThis is one of those “You’ve got to be kidding me” things and it would appear the good people of Baltimore see it that way too. The WBAL-TV poll as of a few minutes ago indicated that 3855 people (96%) thought this $1 tax per bullet thing was a bad idea and 164 (4%) thought it was a good idea.
Report Post »LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:46pmIf the ““ local venders ”” are worried about their profit margin from the sale of Bullets in Baltimore Maryland, kind of give me shivers and enforces my plans to NEVER visit there.
although i do think this law is Dumb
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:01pmNorplant for anyone unmarried or on the dole is the solution, not taxing bullets.
Report Post »Rtd301
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 2:59pmOtis…………………………you’re an idiot! Find the boys with the pants around their thighs, arrest them, keep them incarcerated and your problem is solved! Bullet tax…………..you think a dollar a bullet is anything to these clowns? A quick flash rob and they’re set. I notice these punks never try to rob gun stores during the day. What’s that all about?…………Oh; never mind / now I get it.
Report Post »Bowmaster
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:47pmI worked in an extremely dangerous area, in the worst public housing project you can imagine for a year and a half.
Report Post »I carried my GLOCK 19 everywhere!!! (concealed permit for 18 years)
The boys with their pants around their thighs are not the problem.
Sure, they look the part and have the swagger, but, they provided me with a decided tactical advantage.
They have no place to carry a weapon besides their pockets which helps me to eliminate who may be an immediate threat.
It was the guys with their pants pulled up, and long shirts that concerned me the most.
I still don’t think these thugs care much about new gun laws, because, just like most other laws, they will simply ignore them.
LibertyGirl USA
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 2:58pmThe power to tax is the power to destroy.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:17pmChief justice John Marshall
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 2:57pmA well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Report Post »It sounds like the state in infringing on the citzens rigghts to keep a bear arms….through taxation
LiberalMarine
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:12pmThe amendment doesn’t say anything about ammunition, so it’s really not.
Report Post »its_time_to_arrest_our_government
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:35pmhey liberal jarhead ammo are arms. now i see why you joined the marines. your friggin stupid!
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 3:48pmYeah. “Arms” is capitalized in the actual text of the 2nd Amendment. that means it’s a “term of art”, meaning it has a specific meaning different from that of the dictionary definition of the word. The 2nd Amendment has nothing to do with your hands, elbows, shoulders, or any points inbetween.
The founders knew Arms to mean any material resource by which a military organization performs the functions for which it was constituted. That includes firearms, gun powder, lead, wadding, ramrods, bayonets, and today, brass, primers, magazines, scopes, laser sights, lights, bipods, grenades, and at all times, tents, blankets, boots, bandages, wagons, horses, cannon, etc., etc.
To claim that the 2nd Amendment only protects the right to keep and bear firearms while permitting the government to deny the people lead, gun powder, etc. is to ascribe to the founders the special kind of stupidity.
Report Post »LiberalMarine
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 4:03pmFirst off, if you are going to try and insult my intelligence, try and get your spelling right. Second, taxing is not infringing, it‘s not saying you can’t HAVE the ammo, you will just have to pay some more for it.
Report Post »Grey Matter
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 4:47pm@LIBERALMARINE
The definition of infringe is “to infringe is to encroach on a right or privilege.“ And the definition of encroach is ”To take another’s possessions or rights gradually or stealthily.” The taxation of bullets clearly fits within the definition of infringe. Just because you can still HAVE something (as you put it) does not mean it hasn’t been infringed. Legally this has long been settled. Otherwise we would still have laws that you had to pay a tax in order to vote – which used to exist but have long since been overturned.
Report Post »Midas_Mulligan
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 5:44pmLiberalMarine
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 4:03pm
First off, if you are going to try and insult my intelligence, try and get your spelling right. Second, taxing is not infringing, it‘s not saying you can’t HAVE the ammo, you will just have to pay some more for it.
I won’t insult your intelligence; it is a logical impossibility to insult a non-entity.
Like your informed and brilliant position. Let’s impose a poll tax of $200.00 to exercise the right to vote. No, wait, I seem to recall that poll taxes were struck down by the Supreme Court in a decision that essentially said that taxing a Constitutionally guaranteed right is, indeed, infringement, Duh, go figure.
Ya know, ignorance is easily remedied. But, in the immortal words of Gen. Honore, “Don’t get stuck on stupid.” Words of wisdom that you should take to heart.
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 7:52pmIf it’s a right, you can’t tax it. Voting is a right. That’s why poll taxes were shot down. The BATFE’s tax stamp for firearms is unconstitutional and with the snowball rolling downhill that is Heller and MacDonald, that will eventually be made plain.
You can’t have a poll tax to vote.
You can’t have a religion tax on Bibles.
You can’t have a freedom of press tax on laser printers.
And you can’t have a special ammunition tax.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on July 20, 2011 at 1:17pmhey liberallying doch’e,
You posted
First off, if you are going to try and insult my intelligence, try and get your spelling right. Second, taxing is not infringing, it‘s not saying you can’t HAVE the ammo, you will just have to pay some more for it.
A tax that put in place to limit or inhibit all together a citizen’s purchase of any item is an infringement.
Report Post »It sole purpose is to stop a citizen from purchasing a product through attrition. Maybe they should put million dollars taxs on guns,sodas,suv’s,big mac and anything else they don’t want citizens to have.
As a marine you took and oath to defend the Constitution but we all know what a liberals word is worth and since you put your poolitiucal ideology in front of your call of duty we know what you are.
And btw I’m sure you truely are a marine……AND BY SURE I MEAN HIGHLY DOUBT.
now off you go to troll somewhere else