Tacoma gunshop owners, city council at odds over economic impact of gun tax
A Tacoma gun shop owner is preparing to shut down his store next year after the city council passed a gun and ammunition tax on Tuesday.
Dan Davies, who co-owns Marys Pistols with his wife, Mary, said the ordinance will put him out of business when it goes into effect in July 2020.
What the city council has done is taken my livelihood, said Davies. This is my business and Im being run out of town by the Tacoma City Council.
Tuesday night, despite an outcry from gun shop owners and manufacturers, council members unanimously passed an ordinance that would impose a $25 per-firearm tax at retail and a two to five-cent tax per round of ammunition sold.
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