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onewobblywheel t1_iyf0c2i wrote

It's not a penalty. It's a "sin tax", like the other two components the ATF watches over. See there, they're already in the same category, under the same regulatory agency.

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smartmynz_working t1_iyf1c3s wrote

Constitutional Rights are "sin"s now? Ive never heard of a Tobacco Amendment in our constitution. Imagine if we emposed a tax on other rights. Actually, I take that back. We have done that in the past in the country. And in 1964 we collectively agreed that taxing constitutional rights were wrong, and made it federally illegal.

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