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Louisiana Holds '2nd Amendment Weekend' Sales Tax Holiday for Guns
5 September 2009
Los Angeles Times
ATLANTA — Happy 2nd Amendment Weekend Sales Tax Holiday, everyone!
An observance of that name is underway this weekend in Louisiana, thanks to a law signed by Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal in July. It decrees that each year, on the first Friday through Sunday in September, shoppers in the Bayou State shall be exempt from paying state or local taxes on firearms, ammunition or hunting supplies.
The law was sponsored by state Sen. Robert Marionneaux Jr., who said in a... (GunPolicy.org)