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With $1,000 per pistol tax now law, gun rights group promises action
With $1,000 per pistol tax now law, gun rights group promises action
“In what one legal scholar termed an attempt to “tax a constitutional right out of existence,” the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas Islands has enacted an almost prohibitively strict new gun law.
On March 28, Chief Judge Ramona Villagomez Manglona, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands, ruled the U.S. territory’s 40-year-old total ban on handguns was unconstitutional, saying “because the people of the Commonwealth are part of the American people who have overwhelmingly chosen handguns as their principal means of self-defense, the Second Amendment protects that right here as well.”
In a reply to the court order barring enforcement, the Commonwealth Senate passed a strict gun control bill earlier this month to which the House added a $1,000 per pistol excise tax, which the Senate approved unanimously on April 7, sending the bill to Gov. Ralph DLG Torres which he signed into law Monday……………
……….. The new law has a host of measures bundled into it that include:
•A special $1,000 excise tax on all handguns sold
•500-foot gun free zones around schools, government buildings, and places of worship
•The mandatory use of gun locks for firearms not in use
•A ban on the carry of firearms outside of the home for self-defense
•Licenses to possess firearms or ammunition
•Forbids Title II firearms such as suppressors, short barreled rifles and machine guns
•An assault weapon ban similar to those in California and New York with a 10-round cap on magazine size
•A prohibition on centerfire rifles in a caliber larger than .223 and shotguns larger than .410
CNMI Attorney General Edward Manibusan warned that he is ready to defend the new law against legal challenges, which are likely…………….
ALSO SEE:
Lawmakers approve $1,000 tax on handguns in lieu of total ban
Judge drop kicks last handgun ban in the U.S.
Marianas Variety - New gun-control law imposes $1,000 excise tax on pistols
http://www.cnmileg.gov.mp/resources/files/HCOMM19-160_SB19-94,SD1,HD10web.pdf
http://www.guns.com/2014/09/11/home-invasion-survivors-sue-to-overturn-last-handgun-ban-in-u-s/
Here comes the boogieman again………. And the slippery slope thingie…………. Even thou few if any legislators knows or would admit knowing of………
And takes place in the Northern Marianas’ which is not the end of the world………….but you can see it from there if you stand on a chair………
With $1,000 per pistol tax now law, gun rights group promises action
“In what one legal scholar termed an attempt to “tax a constitutional right out of existence,” the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas Islands has enacted an almost prohibitively strict new gun law.
On March 28, Chief Judge Ramona Villagomez Manglona, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands, ruled the U.S. territory’s 40-year-old total ban on handguns was unconstitutional, saying “because the people of the Commonwealth are part of the American people who have overwhelmingly chosen handguns as their principal means of self-defense, the Second Amendment protects that right here as well.”
In a reply to the court order barring enforcement, the Commonwealth Senate passed a strict gun control bill earlier this month to which the House added a $1,000 per pistol excise tax, which the Senate approved unanimously on April 7, sending the bill to Gov. Ralph DLG Torres which he signed into law Monday……………
……….. The new law has a host of measures bundled into it that include:
•A special $1,000 excise tax on all handguns sold
•500-foot gun free zones around schools, government buildings, and places of worship
•The mandatory use of gun locks for firearms not in use
•A ban on the carry of firearms outside of the home for self-defense
•Licenses to possess firearms or ammunition
•Forbids Title II firearms such as suppressors, short barreled rifles and machine guns
•An assault weapon ban similar to those in California and New York with a 10-round cap on magazine size
•A prohibition on centerfire rifles in a caliber larger than .223 and shotguns larger than .410
CNMI Attorney General Edward Manibusan warned that he is ready to defend the new law against legal challenges, which are likely…………….
ALSO SEE:
Lawmakers approve $1,000 tax on handguns in lieu of total ban
Judge drop kicks last handgun ban in the U.S.
Marianas Variety - New gun-control law imposes $1,000 excise tax on pistols
http://www.cnmileg.gov.mp/resources/files/HCOMM19-160_SB19-94,SD1,HD10web.pdf
http://www.guns.com/2014/09/11/home-invasion-survivors-sue-to-overturn-last-handgun-ban-in-u-s/
Here comes the boogieman again………. And the slippery slope thingie…………. Even thou few if any legislators knows or would admit knowing of………
And takes place in the Northern Marianas’ which is not the end of the world………….but you can see it from there if you stand on a chair………