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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
This is easily solved and is referred to in the article that troutman linked to. Simply exempt any bullets sold by gun ranges from the tax, and have laws in place to ensure that they're not removed from the range. Cheap bullets, as long as you use them before you leave (or keep them secured in your locker at the range).
You could even use some portion of the revenue raised by the bullet tax to subsidize the use of gun ranges, and provide free firearms safety training, to get more gun enthusiasts on side.
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This is basically what paintball places do.
That said, I think that by taxing bullets or whatever, you would cause other types of crime.
Potentially more robberies of ammunition storage facilities (like aforementioned ranges), and a blackmarket for illicit production.
I think that the USA just has a gun culture that has a lot of violent tendencies, and is currently going through some bizarre psycho-cultural crisis that is leading to a lot of these mass shootings.
A simple little policy probably won't do a thing.