Members of the Michigan state house of representatives are trying to make use of the pandemic to push through H.R. 5717, a bill that will impose a 30% tax on firearms, a 50% tax on ammunition, raise the age to buy both firearms and ammo to 21, and require a FEDERAL license to purchase both.
This law is unConstitutional, already declared so by the Supreme Court - in 1943.
Murdock v. Pennsylvania, 319 U.S. 105 (1943), from the syllabus:
“Murdock v. Pennsylvania
No. 480
Argued March 10, 11, 1943
Decided May 3, 1943*
319 U.S. 105
[...] A State may not impose a charge for the enjoyment of a right granted by the Federal Constitution. P. 319 U. S. 113.
5. The flat license tax here involved restrains in advance the Constitutional liberties... and inevitably tends to suppress their exercise. P. 319 U. S. 114...
7. Since the privilege in question is guaranteed by the Federal Constitution, and exists independently of state authority, the inquiry as to whether the State has given something for which it can ask a return is irrelevant. P. 319 U. S. 115.
8. A community may not suppress, or the State tax, the dissemination of views because they are unpopular, annoying, or distasteful. P. 319 U. S. 116...”
Yes, this law is VERY unConstitutional.
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