“Florida isn’t the only state with a sales tax suspension to benefit lawful gun and ammunition buyers.”
States with a Second Amendment sales tax holiday are creating a windfall of savings for gun and ammunition purchasers this year. The savings are expected to be in the millions.
Florida’s new Second Amendment sales tax holiday is underway and will last through the end of the year. Firearms and ammunition, along with archery equipment, hunting, fishing and camping supplies, will be exempted from the state’s six percent sales tax. State economists anticipate buyers will save $44.8 million in the Sunshine State.
“I think you will probably see people that were planning on buying a new hunting shotgun or a new hunting rifle will probably take advantage of it and step up the level of what they were going to spend, to buy a better rifle,” said JD Johnson, co-owner of Talon Tactical Outfitters, near Tallahassee, in one media report. “Most of the time, you’re not just buying a gun. You are buying a gun. You are buying ammunition. You are buying a case to put it in. You are buying a safe for maybe at home to lock it up in.”
By Mark Oliva

