Gun Shop Makes Good on It’s Promise to Move Out of Town if Gun Tax Was Implemented

By Guns ‘n’ Freedom

As more anti-protectionist towns try to enforce their own gun control through taxation at least one gun shop has avoided the city’s gun tax altogether by simply moving out.

The owner of Seattle’s Precise Shooter gun store made good on his promise to move out and avoid paying a single dime to the city’s new gun tax.

According to Mynorthwest.com,

Sergey Solyanik, owner of Precise Shooter on Aurora Avenue, is closing his gun shop and moving it to Lynnwood after a recent court ruling gave Seattle approval to impose a tax on gun sales. Solyanik opposed the tax and has argued it would harm his business.

“It would make us unprofitable,” he said. “I calculated it by retroactively applying the tax to our existing sales — I’m a software developer, so I can do that — and we would be operating at a loss for the entire store.”

Solyanik threatened to take his business elsewhere if the city moved forward with the tax. He’s now proving it.

Seattle passed a law in 2015 that places a $25 tax for every firearm, and up to 5 cents for each round of ammunition sold within the city. It was opposed by …Read the Rest

Source:: GunsNFreedom