California Imposes New Target Tax on Golden State Shooters
In recent years, the California Legislature has passed a series of laws restricting the rights of California gun owners. The latest example of anti-gun legislation will hit gun owners in their pocketbooks….
If you want to practice your marksmanship in California from now on, get ready to open your wallet and pay the taxman. With the passage of AB 211, recently signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown, California shooters who use paper targets at indoor ranges will have to pay a fee for every hole they put in paper — literally. This new law, codified in the California Penal Code, states that commercial gun ranges must collect a charge of $0.38 per shot, as established by holes made in approved paper targets. This fee, the “Target Tax”, can be raised in the future at the discretion of the California Dept. of Justice.
Here’s how it will work, starting June 1, 2018, when the new Target Tax law goes into effect at California indoor ranges. First, all shooters must purchase California DOJ-approved paper targets (you may no longer bring your own). When you purchase a certified target at an indoor range, your name and the number of targets you have purchased will be recorded in a state database. Then, after your shooting session, the targets must be scanned, with the number of shot holes recorded. A charge of $0.38 per scanned hole will be added as a line item for your range session, along with the DOJ target-processing fee of $5.00 per target.
With 30 holes, the new California target tax on this left target would be 30 x $0.38 or $11.40. Conversely, the tax on the target on the right would be just 38 cents, because there is only one hole, though five shots went through the same hole. Obviously, exceptional marksmanship skills can help reduce your target tax liabilities.
California Targets Must Be Culturally Tolerant and Non-Discriminatory
AB 211 also includes a series of provisions which specify the types of targets which may be purchased. First, as you might expect, all targets must be printed on recycled paper. Second, no target may contain any “hate speech” or “micro-aggressions”. Third, while targets may still show human silhouette-style outlines, any targets which depict a protected minority type or non-binary gender type are forbidden. Likewise, any target that shows discernable culture, religion, or national origin are forbidden. So, a target showing a bearded male wearing a turban would be forbidden. If you had such a target, the range owner would be required, under AB 211, to confiscate it. Shown below are two types of targets that would be illegal in California under AB 211. NOTE: It is unclear whether a zombie target would be allowed, if the Zombie is unknown gender, ethnicity, or culture.
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nice one
but with this law they could promote accurate guns; one hole group is cheaper!
Dang, you guys get me every year !! Happy Easter and April fools on me !
Might be April Fools,but the fools in Cali are capable of anything these days.
Good grief, don’t give these chuckleheads in California any ideas. They might actually do it.
Unfortunately, I live in that state and there’s nothing to stop these militant activists who call themselves statesmen, unless and until the NSSF and or the NRA will step forward and take these cretins to the Supreme Court.
Well played, Accurate Shooter, well played.
had me for a moment. WHAT ???!!! April 1, thank goodness!!
Is this a April fools joke. If not theres alot of people that need to have their heads examined. I didn’t see any provisions for that examination in the bill.
How about a Tax collected by Federal T.S.A. agents to match any abridgment of the Second Amendment of Out bound Calif. residents. An executive order by Trump would do to start with.
Patterning a shotgun will require a home equity loan.
I am hoping that this is an April Fools joke?
Is this real? How about you dumbasses vote these cretans out of office, otherwise you damn well deserve what you get. Hey, you’re gun owners. Do what has to be done or turn em in.
Even though it is April 1, don’t give them any ideas!!
It’s not that simple CJ. The two major voting blocks in this activist state are the SF bay area and the greater LA area. For the most part, the remainder of the state are patriotic Americans but those two bastions have all of the votes. Few hunters and few shooters outside of gang members. The Democrats are in power in all 3 areas of government and the vast majority of them come from those areas. The states of Washington and Oregon are similar and if these rules go unchecked, are sure to follow CA.
Does this article have anything to do with the date?
Does this tax apply to law enforcement?
As goes the libtards of Kommiefornia, so declines Orenogun and Washifornia. The idiots in WA state cant think for themselves and our governor is, sadly, a liberal idiot!
A liitle late for me -as in New Zealand, it’s April 2nd already.
Well done guys.
This can not be enforced, the owners of ranges will ignore this, otherwise they will go out of business. California is going down hard, Feds and 11 Calif cities have lawsuits on Calif, so there going to make life miserable on everybody until they go down, There is no more to it than that
It looks like they are going to put the indoor shooting ranges out of business. Will law enforcement have to pay the tax too?
I almost forwarded this until I thought about it for a minute. Good one.
The indoor range I shot at today in Northridge CA, has begun installing cameras in each lane to record all hits on paper. When you leave your bill will be automatically charged to the credit card you use for the bullet hole deposit and your receipt will be ready for you. I think its tax deductible.
People will stop going to indoor range and ranges will close, but thats their idea
Ranges get prepared to go out of business, people will not pay this, not to mention people can’t afford it. So put all of the cameras up you want, you will just eat them
Damn! He gets me every year. Thanks, Ed.
P.S. A per-hole tax is very unfair to people who can actually hit the target. It favors inaccurate guns and poor markmanship.
The real ab-211
california legislature—2015–16 regular session
ASSEMBLY BILL No. 211
Introduced by Assembly Member Gomez
(Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Alejo and Roger
Hernández)
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Calderon, Chiu, Chu, Gipson,
Levine, Medina, Rodriguez, Thurmond, and Weber)
(Coauthors: Senators Cannella and Hall)
February 2, 2015
An act to amend Sections 110003, 110005, 110006, 110007, 110008,
110009, 110011, and 110021 of, and to amend and repeal Section 6253.2
of, the Government Code, to amend Sections 12300.5, 12300.7, 12301.6,
and 14186.35 of, to amend and repeal Sections 10101.1, 12306, and
12306.1 of, and to repeal Section 12302.25 of, the Welfare and
Institutions Code, and to amend Section 34 of Chapter 37 of the Statutes
of 2013, relating to human services.
DIDN’T SEE ANYTHING ABOUT TARGETS . . . .
You forgot to mention that the new tax is progressive (like everything else in California). The $0.38 is for the hole in the 5 ring, every additional point increases the tax by 5 cents, so that the 10-ring would cost you $0.63 and the X-ring would be $0.65.
It just dawned on me that Trap, Skeet and Sporting Clay shooters are getting a pass on this. It has been rumored that many in the CA legislature ,although against rifles and pistols, enjoy trap shooting at an elite legislative members only club located on one of the rural properties owned by ex govoner arnold schwarzenegger
Wait, so what if someone shoots steel reactive targets?
Paste a picture of the governor or state [legislators] over the target. Shoot it full of holes and have it scanned and submitted.
LOL so many folk forget it’s 1st of April today…
This was friggin’ good one Accurateshooter !!!
We had all better take a better look at this. A friend today searched this bill in CA and found it has nothing to do with a target tax. AB211 talks about nursing homes and welfare issues and has nothing to do with guns or shooting.
Neither of us were able to find this subject in a search. Very curious where Accurate Shooter obtained this information…..
Come on guys. It is a great April Fools prank!
This new tax won’t apply to me. My eyes are so bad, I never hit the target
2nd best April’s Fool joke I have ever seen on a firearms website…
You better be careful with these April fools jokes because you’re giving the A.G. crazies ideas.
You just know there’s some governor somewhere with his finger tapping his chin saying you know… I never thought of that.
Ok, I’ve been duked too. Living in California nothing can be taken lightly when it comes to our gun rights. I almost feel like it’s the 60’s and spaceships are landing on earth with little green men. I just hope that this one doesn’t come true eventually TOO !! Area 51 ?
Not a nice “April Fools” joke.
Californians are so shell shocked by the stuff this state passes it hurts much more than funny.
Best April Fools Joke I have been a victim of in years.
~ Put “MoonBean’s” Picture on the Targets ……Then they would make a $$$ FORTUNE $$$$.
Ha! And I was figuring that y’all were incorrect and the fee would actually be 30x.38¢+$5 DOJ target processing fee = $16.40.
I was thanking God I didn’t live in Kali. Good one.