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BEST ANSWER  decided by votes   |  clarusvisum  |  March 24, 2009 07:58 PM  |  view on twitter
"NRA Claim: "Increase Federal Taxes on Guns and Ammunition by 500 Percent"

Uncertain: This claim is based on an article that appeared in the Chicago Defender on Dec. 13, 1999, when Obama was in the Illinois state Senate. According to the Defender, at an anti-gun rally, Obama "outlined his anti-gun plan," which, among other things, sought to "increase the federal taxes by 500 percent on the sale of firearm, ammunition sic -- weapons he says are most commonly used in firearm deaths." As a U.S. senator, however, Obama has not pushed for any such tax on ammunition." -- http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/nra_targets_obama.html

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pmacdon1  |  March 24, 2009 06:18 PM  |  view on twitter
The source is an article in the Chicago Defender from Dec. 13, 1999. Unfortunately I couldn't find the article on the Defender's website, but here is a random website with the text of the article:

http://www.volokh.com/posts/1203389334.shtml#contact

As far as I can tell, the Defender article is the sole source that claims Obama proposed a 500% tax increase, and this random volokh.com website is the only place I can find the text of the article.
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lon
lon  |  March 24, 2009 06:54 PM
Really good find! I just spent about 10 minutes doing a search on my own, and couldn't really turn anything up.
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