Chicago Bullet Tax Dropped, Gun Tax Still Moving Forward

from: http://www.ussportsmen.org/hunting/chicago-bullet-tax-dropped-gun-tax-still-moving-forward/

Cook County, Illinois Board of Commissioner’s President Toni Preckwinkle has dropped the five-cent per bullet “violence tax” that was recently proposed in the county budget.  The tax would have increased a box of shotgun shells by $12.50 and a brick of .22 cartridges by a staggering $25.
However, President Preckwinkle has refused to drop the gun tax that was also part of the proposal, saying “It is very important to us to tax guns because we know that guns are the sources of the incredible violence we have in our neighborhoods.”

The gun tax would tack on an additional $25 tax on every firearm sold within the county.