Ammo tax lawmaker at it again Articles / Gun Laws Date: Jun 09, 2004 - 08:41 AM BEWARE, HUNTERS and target shooters. Assemblyman Mark Ridley-Thomas (D-Los Angeles) is back with another bill to infringe upon the rights of legal gun owners. You may recall that last year he had AB 992, which proposed a 10-cent tax per bullet on the sale of ammunition in California. This was soundly defeated. His new bill (AB 2858) would exempt people with a valid hunting license, but the fees would still apply to law-abiding target shooters who do not hunt. The new bill would impose a 10 percent fee o­n all ammunition and a 5 percent fee o­n all handguns sold in California, in order to establish a "Firearm Victims Reimbursement Fund." This legislation is generally opposed by legal gun owners, trap shooters and target shooters, who feel there is simply no nexus between law-abiding sportsmen and "firearms victims" and that we should not be required to pay for the acts of violent criminals. http://www.uniondemocrat.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=14355 This article comes from TxGuns.com http://www.txguns.com/ The URL for this story is: http://www.txguns.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=61