[nyfirearms]

Today, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced a 2013 budget plan that will penalize, through taxation, all purchases of firearms and ammunition in Cook County.* If adopted, this proposal would impose a tax of a nickel per bullet and $25 for each firearm purchased, ultimately amounting to a massive penalty.* Cook County would be the first jurisdiction in the country to impose a per-bullet and gun tax.* Based on current prices, this penalty would more than double the price of some ammunition -for example, the price of a value box of .22 LR ammunition would increase by more than 150% under this proposal!* Please contact Board President Preckwinkle and the Cook County Board of Commissioners TODAY and respectfully demand that they halt their blatant attacks on the Second Amendment.

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