A State House hearing Thursday followed a well-worn path of other airings of bills focused on guns this year.
Gun-rights advocates well outnumbered advocates for the bill at the hearing. And there was little sign the bill, which would put a 10-percent additional tax on gun and/or ammunition purchases in Rhode Island, has support to advance as the legislative session heads into June.
Read the article: The Providence Journal
Bill to add tax to gun, ammunition purchases in R.I. runs into opposition
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