Why The Gun Lobby Is Terrified Of California - from Mother Jones - *5-cent tax on each bullet*

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223. Undue burden, thy name is printing ink

OInk is a hazardous material, so there are tons of regulations about it. In some places, and Idaho is one, you need a permit to store large quantities of hazmat.(We have capacity for 3000 gallons of black and a thousand each of the other three colors.) There are certain inks we can't get, like petroleum based ink and a lot of hazardous pigments.(Yellow pigment used to be made from lead - the pigment in yellow road paint still is, which is why the stripe in the middle of the road is white in all other countries - and blue ink used to be made from cyanide.) There are kinds of ink that are almost impossible to use - in California you can't get a new permit for a rotogravure or solvent-based flexo plant because the ink is an ozone depleter. And the tax on ink is pretty high.

Ammunition, by comparison, is governed by the implied warranty of merchantability - when you put it in a gun and pull the trigger, the bullet is expected to leave the barrel and the gun is expected to not be damaged.

And I still don't think that in most cases five cents per round is an undue burden. Maybe it would be with .22 Long Rifle, which is a dime per round, but mass murderers do not use .22s. They could be exempted and probably will be.