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So… requiring an ID to buy a gun is also an unconstitutional tax on a right?


Taxes on guns are completely constitutional. The 24th amendment explicitly outlaws poll taxes.

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to lay pill tax or other tax" - 24th amendment to the United States Constitution


It’s not a tax on the gun though. It’s a tax to exercise the right, identical to the poll tax.


Yes, it is.


Agreed, but I like that the “requiring ID is racist but only in the USA” crowd doesn’t like the direct relation.


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