Post #3742 by albaby1 on the US Policy board

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It's my right to ingest tobacco, marijuana and alcohol.

No, it's not. The government could outlaw tobacco and alcohol. The federal government and most states did outlaw marijuana, with few exceptions - and the fed prohibition is still in place.

You don't have a Constitutionally-protected right to ingest those things. But the SCOTUS has held that you have a Constitutionally-protected right to bear firearms. So it's highly likely that SCOTUS would treat a specific tax on firearm usage under the same rubric as Grosjean, and find it prohibited as an unconstitutional infringement on a constitution right.

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