A nearly four-month tax holiday on firearms, ammo, and gun accessories was signed into effect as part of the upcoming Florida state budget.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the state's Fiscal Year 2025-2026 Budget in Wildwood on June 30, including the so-called "Second Amendment Summer."

While initially proposed as just six weeks, the budget as-signed covers a holiday to run from Sept. 8 through Dec. 31, 2025, making it more of a "Second Amendment Summer and Fall."

It exempts sales tax on purchases of "bows, firearms, ammunition, tents, sleeping bags, camping stoves, fishing rods and reels, tackle boxes, and bait and tackle."

As Florida's state sales tax rate is currently set at 6 percent, the savings on, say, a $2,000 FN SCAR would be about $120 – enough to buy some similarly tax-free ammo or a Pelican case. 

While Louisiana and Mississippi already have annual 2A tax holidays, the latter stretching back to 2014, they typically only run across a designated three-day weekend. Similar measures have been proposed in the past in Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, and Ohio.

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