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While the country celebrates the election of President Trump, Democrat dumpster fire states like Colorado continue to remind us of how much contempt they have for the inalienable rights of Americans. With the Associated Press calling the race Wednesday morning, the state’s Proposition KK is likely to pass with roughly 54 percent of Coloradans voting in favor of the measure. 

The proposition would effectively impose a 6.5 percent excise tax on dealer sales of firearms, ammunition, and accessories. The tax will apply to any dealer making more than $20,000 annually, and those sellers may choose to absorb the tax or pass it on to their customers. Exempt from the tax will be active-duty military and law enforcement personnel, placing most tax-paying citizens on the proverbial lower deck of the Titanic. 

Private-party sales between non-licensed individuals would not incur the excise tax.

Colorado legislature pushed for the new excise tax following cutbacks to federal Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) funding, which resulted in less funds for state programs that support survivors of domestic violence and other crimes. VOCA funds in Colorado have decreased since 2018 from more than $50 million to $13 million. 

House Majority Leader Monica Duran, who became a state representative without having to read, comprehend, or respect the Constitution of the United States of America, helped place the measure on the ballot, justifying the rights violation by claiming it shows support for survivors of domestic violence.

“That’s what Prop KK is. It says, you know what? You matter, we are here for you, and we’re going to make sure that we hold your hand every step of the way so that you’re able to stand on your own and able to be successful in whatever you decide to do,” Duran said. 

She forgot to add that she would punish law-abiding citizens to achieve this. 

Proposition KK is expected to raise roughly $39 million a year, $30 million of which is earmarked for grants to local governments and nonprofits to help crime victims with counseling, legal advocacy, and emergency financial assistance. $5 million would fund mental health programs for veterans who have exhausted federal benefits. $3 million will go to support services for youths in mental health crises, and the remaining $1 million will be dedicated to increasing safety in public schools. 

Proposition KK will make Colorado the first state in the nation to pass an excise tax on firearms, ammunition, and accessories, making me cringe as I type the words “state in the nation.” While I can support the causes the funds will allegedly provide for, they are a red herring meant to distract citizens from the real agenda, a further infringement upon the Second Amendment. 

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40 COMMENTS

  1. Knives and bare hands are statistically used to kill many domestic assault victims. Waiting for the taxes on gloves to be assessed.

  2. It is what happens when the public perception of Gun Control is the exact opposite of what History Confirms Gun Control to be…connect the h…

    h ttps://youtube.com/watch?v=ZFEz3Bt9hCw&feature=shared

  3. Buying a gun from a gun shop I would assume that person would be law abiding.
    So the law abiding must pay for the crimes of others.
    What form of socialism is that?
    When all seems shitty I repeat this mantra.
    Kamala didn’t win hah hah hah
    Kamala didn’t win hah hah hah
    They tried they lied
    Kamala didn’t win hah hah hah

    • One of them moved (from CA via Co) into my small town a few years ago. A babyboomer know it all college writer type know it all. So much ignorance wrapped in arrogance.

    • Colorado was the ONLY state out of the entire union that trended blue in the latest election.
      That’s a pretty awesome (and awful) stat.
      May as well call the state CaliJR

    • dulytwerp…If you bet a penny you’d lose it. If you want to reply to me then debunk what I post…good luck with that azzhat.

  8. Deb, Im not debunking your post, it’s just that I’ve heard the same thing over and over and over again.
    Its getting to the point I just skip your post because I know your ending.
    That’s to bad too because I do enjoy your post when the record doesn’t skip.

    • dulytwerp…Who died and made you king? It would be a cold day in hell before you or most of the deadwood on this forum would ever post what I post. And as long as there is breath in me I will continue to do so here and elsewhere. Do you understand you ungrateful, pathetic, ignorant, self serving pompous sack of sht?

  9. For House Majority Leader Monica Duran and other of the same persuasion:

    “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” C.S. Lewis

  10. Everytown Tries Out New Scaremongering Description for Ammo Mags.

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  12. House Majority Leader Monica Duran – Another useless wacko radical feminist boss b.

    h ttps://www.monicaduran.com/meet-monica
    I on every crazy program of the EU/Demtards.

    What is WRONG with Colorado? Not long ago a great state – too many Kaliforninan transplants? too many “immigrants”?, too much of a libtard/Subaru/greenie mecca?

    • Don’t know, but Monica has the word salad thing down pat – she gwine hold everbuddy’s hand ever step of the way so they can stand on their own two feet!

    • “What is WRONG with Colorado?”

      Well, I observed some years ago that CO made pot a lot more easily obtainable.

      I’m not even making a hypothesis at this point. But you asked, and that’s my observation.

    • Yup yup. Came to say just that. Large dealers sugar coated the tax by reducing prices 11%, but those discounts have run out. I assume they think we are used to the pain.

      In my county, the total tax amounts to 18.25%; in places such as LA and Long Beach, the tax is over 21%. And this doesn’t include the dealer transfer fee or the Dealer Record of Sale charge of $37 and change. Nor the cost of complying with the new “keep them locked up when not in use” mandatory storage law or the $25 fee for a “firearms safety certificate” every few years.

      Death by a thousand cuts.

  16. Goodness gracious.
    It sounds like a $159 HiPoint must cost $567 in California.
    Well that’s one way to try and keep the doors from a constitutional right.
    What hurts more, a poor man getting robbed $100 or a rich man getting robbed $1000.
    If anyone needs to be armed it’s the less then well to do.

  18. This is what happens when you l e.ga.li ze po.t. And elect homo-se xu.als to office. Why? Because both are s0.c [email protected] pr0.gres-sive in their p0 li.tic@l or@en-tati on.

    They have never ever believed in Liberty.

  19. This is what happens when you l e.g a.li z e po.t. And elect h o m o-se x u.a-ls to office. Why? Because both are s 0.c i @.li s t  pr-0.gres-si-ve in their p-0 li.ti-c@l o-r@e-n-ta-ti on.

    They have never ever believed in Liberty.

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