Wyoming has suspended sales tax collections from gun shows because of increasing animosity toward the state’s tax agents in the field.  These agents go to gun shows to distribute tax forms to the sellers who are required to collect sales tax and hand it over to the Department of Revenue.

Basically what WY is doing is charging sales tax on private sales of used guns. That makes this issue not about guns, but about right and wrong. The state got their cut when the items were purchased as new. They’re trying to double dip here and people are outraged, as they should be.  This would lead directly into charging a sales tax on items you might put in a yard sale or dispense with on Craigs List.

They say they don’t have a problem at craft shows, and there’s a reason for that. Crafters don’t constantly have their rights threatened from half of the political spectrum as well as their government. Gun owners have to be on their toes about things and as a result many of us are unafraid to loudly stand up for our rights.

The state hassling people over money for yard sales and craft shows is like trying to figure out how to pay your mortgage with change from your ashtray and couch cushions.

Source:  trib.com

Quoted from 1911Tuner
Posted at thehighroad.org

I know that it’s hard to believe, but many gun owners voted for Obama.  For some people, the gun issue isn’t the main issue…but one of many. They were convinced that Obama was the better choice on many other positions.

Others voted against Obama on the sole question of 2A/RKBA. I can’t really call it voting for McCain for some few, because he’s no real champion of our cause. He’s just a little further to the right than Obama…but glancing at his voting record shows that he’s not a whole lot further.

My prediction is that the gun question won’t be in the forefront for a while…possibly as much as two years, or maybe more. I think there will be some sort of legislation in that arena, but it won’t be drastic because it will consume too much energy and too many resources for the ensuing battle. The Heller decision sent a message that we won’t take it lightly, and neither Congress nor the president wants to get mired down with the gun question while the economy is comin’ at’em like a runaway train. That’s what their focus will be for a long time. The economic meltdown was the single biggest deciding factor in this election…not guns.

You can probably look for heavy duties and taxes on ammunition and reloading components by July. You can probably also look for restrictions on lead usage. It’s already started…and the environment is their poster child. Remember that the power to tax is the power to destroy. Write to your congressman, and write to him often.

In the interim..we have work to do.

We have a president with a strong anti-gun agenda, and we’re likely stuck with that for the next four years. Our best hope is to swing Congress in our direction by voting and by educating the people who are in the middle of the road. By and large, the fence-sitters are the ones who sent these people to Washington. Let’s see if we can turn the tide, shall we?

Rather than bickering amongst ourselves here…let’s spend that time and effort and bandwidth writing our congressmen. Flood their E-mails and their switchboards. Fighting about which man coulda/woulda/shoulda won will accomplish nothing except using up bandwidth.

“Throw the rascals out!”

Let that be the rallying cry for RKBA.

THROW THE RASCALS OUT!

This information is taken from Obama’s policy web site.  It is commented on by Philip Van Cleave, the president of the Virginia Citizen’s Defense League, of which I am a proud member.  This spells out, directly from Obama’s own approved content, exactly what kind of unconstitutional roadblocks he intends to install to our second amendment rights.

change.gov: As president, Barack Obama would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to access important gun trace information, and give police officers across the nation the tools they need to solve gun crimes and fight the illegal arms trade.

PVC: The Tiahrt Amendment is what keeps local tyrants, like Mayor Michael Bloomberg, from getting gun trace information, most of which doesn’t even deal with guns used in crimes, and use that statistically misleading information to attack gun dealers.  Remember, anytime the government needs “tools,” those tools are carved out of both your freedom and your hide.

change.gov: Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals who shouldn’t have them.

PVC: My definition of what the Second Amendment is differs greatly from what Obama thinks it is.  I’ll bet that these two goals (keeping guns away from children and criminals) will translate into making guns harder to get for non-criminals, like you and me.  Any takers on that bet?  No? I didn’t think so.

change.gov: They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof.

PVC: The term “gun show loophole” was devised by those opposed to gun ownership to demonize both guns and gun shows AND to mislead the average person into believing that this “loophole” allows otherwise illegal transactions to occur at gun shows.  There is NO “gun show loophole”.  Childproof – read “unable to be used quickly in an emergency” – and I’ll bet government guns will be exempted.  Any takers on that bet?  No? I didn’t think so.

change.gov: They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent, as such weapons belong on foreign battlefields and not on our streets.

PVC: So, the police are going to give up their “assault weapons,” too, because such weapons “belong on foreign battlefields only?”  I’ll bet not.  Any takers on that bet?  No?  I didn’t think so.  Obama is yet again playing on the ignorance of non-gun owners who have no idea what the government is calling an “assault weapon,” only that it sounds evil.

Sources:  vcdl.org | change.gov