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

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241. Regulations are a significant burden to publishers

I will give you a very clear example: rotogravure presses. For many years, they were the only technology suitable for printing large circulation magazines because they are extremely fast. The problem is, the ink contains toluene. And the ink will always contain toluene because it's the only solvent that works.(When environmental regulations started to hit the printing industry, the Albert Frankenthal rotogravure press factory and the BASF chemical company did research using every then-available liquid that ink powder could be mixed into, to find a replacement solvent. Rotogravure uses a liquid ink that is applied to the sheet and completely dries before the next color is applied. There are several feet between color units, but the ink can't be even slightly wet when the web enters the next unit. Anyway, they tried everything from water to gasoline and discovered that due to viscosity, volatility and ability to dissolve ink into it, the only acceptable solvent was toluene.)

The only way the magazine industry stayed in business was for the gravure plants to install solvent recovery systemls that cost as much as a press does - an airtight room has to be built around the press and these presses are like nine-story buildings lying on their sides, and ducts eight feet in diameter move air to the recovery unit.

The thing is, if the publisher of Time Magazine would have demanded a First Amendment exemption from environmental regulations any court in the land would have tossed him out.

Back to the original subject: ammo that can be used to easily kill people is a dollar a round. I think we will see a Boy Scouts-requested exemption on .22 ammo because they use so much, bona fide centerfire target shooters and gun training companies will be able to get a tax-exemption card because they use so much, and for the rest of us a five-percent increase in ammo costs won't be a big deal. It goes up by small amounts all on its own anyway. Remember the Obamacare tanning tax of ten percent? I know someone who owns a tanning bed; the tax has not hurt her tanning business at all.