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Have to tip my hat to Gavin Newsom – he’s in a dead heat with Joe Biden for giving us more material to work with than anyone else. Domestically, the NORK’s Fatty da Kim walks away with the international honors, I think.<\/p>\n
But in his newest – he signed off on legislation which will mandate an excise tax of 11% on all gun and ammunition sales on manufacturers, distributors, and dealers, with the funds generated to go toward ‘violence prevention programs’.\u00a0 Essentially it doubles the already existing Pittman-Robinson federal tax, which at least helps pay for conservation efforts. No word whether this will be collected at each level (which would amount to almost a 35% price hike) or if it only gets collected once.<\/p>\n
\u201cEnough is enough,\u201d Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel, D-Woodland Hills, who authored the legislation. \u201cIt\u2019s time to prioritize the safety of our kids over the gun industry profits.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I am sure taxing the dealers will\u00a0 affect the folks actually committing the crimes, right?<\/p>\n
Newsom also mandated that all semi-automatic firearms have technology to stamp every cartridge case with an identifier mark allowing fired cases to be tracked back to individual guns.<\/p>\n
? Senate Bill 452, authored by Sen. Catherine Blakespear, D-Encinitas. It would require that, starting July 1, 2028, all semiautomatic pistols sold in California use microstamping technology to etch unique identifiers on expended cartridges. This would help law enforcement trace bullets back to a specific gun and owner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I guess the fact that this technology does no currently exist is no bar to legislating it. Reminds me of when New Jersey mandated that all new guns would be required to be ‘personalized’ so only the owners could fire them – that was years ago and no 100% reliable system has been developed in the years since. (Some proposed designs would work only 30% of the time – just what you want to trust your life to.)<\/p>\n
Oh, and he is mandating the infamous credit-card-category scheme, in which any gun store purchases you make get flagged by the credit card companies in a special category – whether you buy a gun, or a tent, or a mummy bag – doesn’t matter, if from a gun store, Big Brother gets to flag it. Any money on how soon they try to criminalize cash-only gun transactions?\u00a0\u00a0 Sacramento Bee<\/a><\/p>\n
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lighter<\/del> different note, San Francisco is adding to its reputation of being the West’s premier clean, law-abiding tourist mecca – set to break their own record of overdose deaths.<\/p>\nThere were 563 overdose fatalities in the Golden City between Jan. 1 and Aug. 31, according to a recent report from the San Francisco chief medical examiner. This puts the city on track to hit 845 overdose fatalities in 2023, the San Francisco Chronicle reported, far surpassing the record 725 in 2020.<\/p>\n
“There’s so much fentanyl that it’s contaminated other drugs sold on the street like meth and crack cocaine. It’s in everything,” Tom Wolf, a former drug user and current recovery advocate, told Fox News.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n