Video: Gun Sales Tax Holiday Next Weekend

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LEE COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) — Next weekend, hunters and gun enthusiasts in Mississippi will get to pay a little less for their guns ammo and other accessories thanks to legislation passed by the Mississippi legislature.

Business was pretty brisk on Saturday at Hunter’s Haven in Tupelo. And the same thing could be said at Carr’s Guns and Ammo in Satillo.

This is the time of year when gun related businesses see a spike in their sales. And recently Governor Phil Bryant signed Senate Bill 2425 giving Mississippi sportsmen an annual tax holiday in September. That means there will be a tax exemption on many things hunters need.

“I think it’s a really good opportunity for the citizens, ” said Brad Hoover, store manager at Hunter’s Haven. “They can actually come in. They can buy firearms, buy ammunition, buy archery supplies and save their sales tax on them. We’ve got a lot of people looking forward to it.”

Cindy Carr is owner of Carr’s Guns and Ammo.

“I think it’s going to be good for the business. I’ve already had a lot of interest people calling making sure that we are doing the sportsman weekend,” Carr said.

Hunters and other gun enthusiasts here in Mississippi are very pleased that Governor Bryant and the legislature have enacted this special legislation because they know there are politicians in Washington who want to take away their Second Amendment Rights.

“There are a lot of politicians that do not like firearms, ” Hoover admits. ‘They want to take them away from the average from the average citizen. Living in the south, it’s more a tradition for everybody to actually own firearms, keep firearms, keep firearms with just hunting shooting or however you want to do it.”

“To me everybody should be able to own a gun,” Carr declares. “Everybody should be able to protect themselves and it’s just our right to be able to do that,” the store owner believes.

The annual tax holiday will occur on the first Friday of each September until midnight on the following Sunday. This year it will be September 5th through 7th. Hoover expects a fifty percent increase in business.