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gorfle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-10 05:53 PM
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"Uncle Sam Collects $2,035,154,440 in Firearms Taxes (2009)"
http://thetruthaboutguns.com/2010/05/robert-farago/uncle-sam-collects-2035154440-in-2009-firearms-taxes/

That's a nice chunk of change!
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-10 06:06 PM
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1. A chunk of change that can be found other places. Nt
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gorfle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-10 06:41 PM
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5. You get it where you can.
Gift horses and mouths and all that.
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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-10 06:07 PM
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2. Damn that Obama is smart
Scaring all those people in to buying all those guns! :sarcasm:
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rgbecker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-10 06:16 PM
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3. Your link gives no nothing (that I could find) about this Firearm tax.
Could you give a link that gives a little to go on? Thanks.
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AtheistCrusader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-10 06:35 PM
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4. It's the Pittman-Robertson act.
http://wildlifelaw.unm.edu/fedbook/pract.html
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rgbecker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-10 07:22 PM
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7. Oct.. 2008 - Sept 2009 $445.6 million collected.
http://www.nssf.org/Newsroom/releases/show.cfm?PR=020110.cfm&path=2010

Must be some sort of mix up.
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AtheistCrusader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-10 03:03 AM
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8. No, that's correct. I think you're accidentally comparing 1 year of sales to 1 business quarter.
Edited on Tue May-04-10 03:06 AM by AtheistCrusader
That number is a little higher than normal, but in-line. Ballpark, it looks right to me.

Edit: OH, I think I see the problem. The OP suggests that is how much was collected, I think it should read that is how much in sales the tax was levied against. Otherwise, that number is just totally bogus.
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Hoopla Phil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-10 06:55 PM
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6. I wonder how much of that is Title 2 tax money. . .
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AtheistCrusader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-10 03:08 AM
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9. This is wrong.
Edited on Tue May-04-10 03:08 AM by AtheistCrusader
That's about how much there was in total sales for the year, and even then, the number is a tad high. The actual tax revenue was closer to 400 million. Source further down-thread.

http://www.nssf.org/Newsroom/releases/show.cfm?PR=020110.cfm&path=2010
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GreenStormCloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-10 09:09 AM
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10. $400,000,000 is still a lot of money, at least to me it is. N/T
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Euromutt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-10 09:17 AM
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11. Then you have no future in federal politics or banking
:P
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AtheistCrusader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-10 12:00 PM
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13. On the contrary!
I think the op's math qualifies! :D

(the source, not the poster)
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aikoaiko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-10 09:34 AM
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12. You're welcome!

I did my part (like many other here).
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Callisto32 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-10 02:00 PM
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14. I'd like mine back, please.
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