County to Screw Blue States

Who needs to follow Court orders? Not Cook County it seems:

• Cook County, Illinois, home of the nation’s largest open-air shooting gallery, otherwise known as Chicago, has a long and storied history of crime, corruption, and Second Amendment infringement. And today, between the gang members and the politicians who support them in an unholy alliance, that disregard for the rule of law and enumerated civil rights continues.

  The latest involves Cook County’s ordinance establishing targeted taxes on the exercise of the right to keep and bear arms – specifically guns and ammo. Guns Save Life, an aggressive gun rights organization in Illinois known for its “in your face” activism, filed a lawsuit challenging the gun and ammo tax shortly after it was enacted in 2015. That case went all the way to the Illinois Supreme Court which ruled in 2021 that the tax ordinance was unconstitutional. The Illinois Supremes ordered the trial court to enter a summary judgement in favor of Guns Save Life.

  Cook County then amended their ordinance and has been slow-walking the legal process with endless filings ever since. At long last, about a week ago, a Cook County trial court judge struck down the ordinance, again at the direction of the Illinois Supreme Court. It was a simple two-page order.

  Even after losing in the state’s highest court, Cook County has made it clear to the plaintiffs of the case, Guns Save Life, that they have no intention of ending its illegal collection of taxes on every gun sold in the county along with the ammo to feed them.
  

The lawyers over at Guns Save Life aren't morons though, and they've devised a brilliant strategy that will end up with Cook County taxpayers financing their lawsuits against dozens of other jurisdictions:

• Ultimately, if Cook County wants to continue to act like petulant children as a result of their loss, this case could end up in front of the US Supreme Court. If that happens and SCOTUS rules our way on the Second Amendment count within the suit, that could mean an end of gun and ammo surtaxes nationwide.

And court costs will then be assessed against the losing side, similar to how Shortshanks ended up cutting a check to the NRA for hundreds of thousands of dollars many years ago.