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.
Labels: gun issues
posted by SCC at 12:04 AM
20 Comments:
The end strategy sounds good to me. When/if the surcharge on guns and ammo is knocked out nationally, I hope that means federal fingers will be slapped from wetting its beak, the price point for firearms and ammo should drop significantly below sale campaigns. Wishful thinking? Maybe, but SCOTUS is numerically tipped conservative so there’s a chance at minimum we get a 5-4 decision.
Can't fix Stupid or the Democrat Party! They will use your money any way they want because there is no deterrent or accountability. They can go back to their sponsors pleading they have done their best and the courts are the enemy also. If the taxpayers were allowed to recover the stupid money from the actual attorneys or individuals who continue these absurd lawsuits, most of this nonsense would disappear. Just my very old humble opinion.
Vote any politician who waists taxpayers money out of office. They are clearly going against the constitutional second amendment right. These are the peoples rights. Wasting money on frivolous lawsuits and laws they need to be voted out.
Mr. Slime, Lawyer here...on this gun safety law
Here's the "new" angle to collect the tax....It's for the kids.
Well....Huhhh...WHO ...could refuse something for the kids.....
Who can I bill for this advice, City or County ...fuck it ..Both.
Since this has been fought all the way to the state Supreme Court TWICE and Crook county has lost TWICE and yet refuses to comply, why isn’t some judge slapping them with contempt-of-court fines?
I don’t know what the county takes in on this tax but, I’m willing to bet a $10k/day fine would put a major crimp in the revenue stream.
Democrats do not care what anything costs because taxpayers pay.
Wait until President Trump cuts off funding thanks to jb and brandon supporting illegal criminals! ICE is supposed to start today in this corruption filled cesspool wonder if it will happen? Locking up Toni-brandon-jb would be the absolute best day ever here! https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-goes-toe-to-toe-sanctuary-cities-over-deportation-illegal-immigration-crackdown-set-begin
They don't care. It's not their money. The goal is to drive every gun shop from the county.
Don't back no losers.
It's been a ploy of theirs for decades, if you can't beat them they bankrupt you. As the county can endlessly tax the citizens, they have an endless stream of funds to pursue the lawsuit. What needs to start happening is the decision makers need to be on the hook, not the taxpayer.
Possibly Cook County should secede from Illinois. Form their own state. The mayor could declare himself Governor/Dictator and life would go on. Lardass (Governor) would be rid of him. Problem kind of solved. These people are off. Go watch the View more.
Or, you could just retire and move to a state where those taxes are frowned upon, and no FOID is even necessary.... your choice.
Wrong, so wrong. Cook County politicians don’t care about fines. They aren’t paying the fines with their money, it’s your money they’re using.
I think the 1998 really went to 02/2000. I believe that was the last class for the fed money. Either way 1999 and 2000 have the time to go if they wanted to.
I say fuck the slimy lawyers
The Illinois law regarding the large magazines and certain rifles has gone to the Supreme Court and been upheld. Going to the Supreme Court isn’t a guarantee and we all know the Illinois Supreme Court isn’t going to help the gun owner. Maye somehow Donald can get involved and do something to help
Do we get our tax money back???
Ammo Tax, Soda Tax, Bag Tax, Rideshare Tax, Digital Tax, Streaming Tax, Cloud Tax......
Only a loony Liberal big city can think of....
Pop Tax I was actually fine with. According to County Charter from way back, Cook County must always & forever supply a safety net of free healthcare to its residents [Stroger, Provident Hospital, etc].
How many hood rats do you know that spend a big chunk of their SNAP benefits [food stamps] on a shopping cart full of 2 liter bottles of carbonated corn syrup? Then if they actually survive to 45, they start whining about diabetes over at Stroger and we taxpayers get charged for their insulin & amputations for the next couple decades.
Why not at least have one small tax to cover that expense?
The State of Hellinois doesn't care about the gun laws. They pass bad laws that will be challenged so the state can funnel money to connected law firms to defend the state. Its the new patronage.
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