So, how about this as a countermeasure against this sort of clownery:
IL General Assembly Short Session to Consider Sales Tax Preemption Bill
Washington, DC – -(Ammoland.com)- This week, the Illinois General Assembly will convene for a short session.
During the short session it is important that you contact your state Representative and politely urge him or her to cosponsor House Bill 4348, introduced by state Representative Jerry Costello (D-116). HB 4348 seeks to remove the power of local governments and municipalities to impose a sales tax on firearm and ammunition purchases.
This legislation would also void the currently standing firearm and ammunition sales tax in the City of Chicago.
These taxes seek to make an already expensive product even more so, potentially pricing law-abiding citizens out of exercising their Second Amendment rights. Further, those taxes levied from gun owners are placed into the “Public Safety Fund,” thereby blaming law-abiding individuals and forcing them to pay for the crimes and acts committed by criminals.
Please contact your state Representative and politely urge him or her to cosponsor House Bill 4348.
Contact information for your state Representative can be found here.
Read more: http://www.ammoland..../#ixzz3yNdNcOdW
Under Creative Commons License: Attribution
Follow us: @Ammoland on Twitter | Ammoland on Facebook
The legislature at work!
"A well educated Media, being necessary for the preservation of a free State, the right of the people to keep and read books, shall not be infringed."
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary for the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
“One can never underestimate the idiocy of those determined to be offended by things that don't affect their real lives in the slightest.” —Me
“Hatred is the sharpest sword; the desire for peace is armor made of willow leaves in the face of an enemy who despises you, as neither alone will stop a strike that is aimed at your neck.” —Samurai proverb
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” —Robert Heinlein
“I reserve the right to take any action necessary to maintain the equilibrium in which I've chosen to exist.” —Me
"It ain't braggin' if you done it." —Will Rogers
