Washington Examiner: New York House Republicans take aim at Democratic state lawmakers' push for bullet tax

Top New York Republicans are out to shoot down a first-of-its-kind measure now making its way through the state Senate that would place a new tax on ammunition.

The measure, introduced late last month by a pair of Democrats, would place a tax of up to a nickel on each round of ammunition measuring .22 caliber or less. Revenue from the bill would fund gun violence research being conducted through the state Department of Health and the State University of New York...

...Republican Rep. Andrew Garbarino, who served in the state Assembly before being elected to the U.S. House, denounced the proposal as a "punitive measure" that would "unfairly target law-abiding gun owners."

"It’s outrageous, and I would urge my former colleagues in the state Legislature to reject it out of hand," he said.