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BATON ROUGE – Today, Governor Bobby Jindal highlighted the first day of the first annual “Louisiana Second Amendment Weekend Sales Tax Holiday” that runs from Friday through Sunday, Sept. 6th.

Governor Jindal said, “This is a great opportunity for our hunters to get the equipment they need for enjoying Louisiana’s great outdoors – especially as we open dove season this weekend. This weekend-long sales tax holiday on hunting gear and accessories not only helps boost sales at local sports stores and hunting suppliers, but also encourages more folks to get outside and see why Louisiana is Sportsman’s Paradise.”

Act 453 of the Regular Session of the 2009 Louisiana Legislature signed by the Governor provides a three-day exemption from state and local sales and use taxes on consumer purchases of firearms, ammunition and hunting supplies. This is an annual sales tax holiday that will occur each year on the first consecutive Friday through Sunday in September – starting with this weekend in 2009.

According to statute, during this sales tax holiday weekend, the sales and use tax levied by the state and its political subdivisions shall not apply to any consumer purchases of firearms, ammunition and hunting supplies. The Annual Louisiana Second Amendment Weekend Holiday Act became effective July 9, 2009.

“All of us hunters are getting excited about the upcoming season,” said LDWF Secretary Robert Barham, “and this tax-free weekend on hunting supplies is certainly coming at just the right time. This weekend presents new hunters with the opportunity to pick up the essentials, and experienced hunters to purchase gear they might have been putting off buying.”

The state and local sales and use tax exemption applies to an individual’s purchase of firearms, ammunition and hunting supplies. The sales and use tax exemption is not available for business purchases. Consumer purchases do not include the purchase of animals for hunting.

The Violence Policy Center has again used its rigged false gun death data to atack Louisiana over this law. You see the Violence Policy Center doesn’t like the fact we have no gun control in La and we can shoot carjackers and people who break into our homes so they count the death of all criminals shot by cops and home owners and claim they are gun acidents.