Seattle spent more defending gun-tax lawsuit than it collected in revenue from tax, gun group claims

Here is an update on what is happening in Seattle Washington. This is what happens when we have politicians that are anti-gun with blinders on. They simply vote their PERSONAL anti-gun agenda with little or no concern as to cost or how it effects the general populace. Unfortunately, we have our elitist politicians in California like Kevin “Ghost Gun” de Leon, Gun Grabbin’ Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Kamala Harris’ replacement Xavier Becerra. Left alone, this group of FOUR will see to it that California becomes the first state to have TOTAL gun confiscation. When this happens we all know that the criminals will be the ONLY ones with guns. But, we still have a little time in which to battle this and you can help by joining Gun Rights Organizations that support the Second Amendment. Organizations like…

Gun Owners of America (GOA)

National Rifle Association (NRA)

Firearms Policy Coalition

Gun Owners of California

Calguns Foundation

Here is the follow-up article…

By Stephen Gutowski Published August 02, 2017 Washington Free Beacon

The city of Seattle spent more to defend a lawsuit against its gun tax than it gathered in revenue from the tax, a gun-rights group claimed on Friday.

King County Superior Court Judge Lori K. Smith ruled in favor of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) on Friday in a Public Records Act suit over Seattle’s refusal to disclose the exact amount of revenue collected through their “gun violence tax.” The gun-rights group filed suit after the city refused to fulfill a public record request from Dave Workman, editor of SAF-owned TheGunMag.com. The group said the real revenue numbers revealed in court documents appear to fall short of the city’s projections.

“We are delighted with the outcome of this case,” Alan Gottlieb, SAF founder and publisher of TheGunMag.com, said. “It was silly for Seattle to withhold this information, but we’re pretty certain why the city did it. The council was told that this tax could generate between $300,000 and a half-million dollars, but now it appears the city has collected just over $100,000, which is an embarrassing shortfall.”

The tax, which works out to $25 per firearm and 2 or 5 cents per round of ammunition, has thus far generated no more than $108,013.04, according to court documents. During the discovery portion of the suit, Seattle’s lawyers revealed that a single gun seller accounted for more than 80 percent of the gun-tax revenue. Michael Coombs, co-owner of Outdoor Emporium, said in a separate court filing that he is that gun seller and his tax payments revealed the city’s highest possible revenue.

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