tax free weekend on guns

[phulklip]

Anyone see this:

November 18, 2009

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina shoppers will get a second chance to buy tax-free guns.

The state Revenue Department sent out a reminder Wednesday of the upcoming "Second Amendment Weekend." The 48-hour tax break begins just after midnight the Friday after Thanksgiving.

Shoppers will pay no state or local sales taxes on handguns, rifles and shotguns, which can total 9 percent. Taxes still apply to ammunition and accessories.

South Carolina had the nation's only tax holiday on guns last year. Legislators tacked it on to a tax break on energy-efficient appliances, then restored it in the budget this year.

Louisiana followed with a sales tax holiday for hunters in September. That break went further, applying to any item that can be used for hunting or fishing.

[pennsy]

I heard all next month there will be a tax free entire month on guns in NJ!


Nice to see SC is pro-2A. I just wish they'd honor non-resident permits of UT and FL

[ungawa]

If it includes NFA tax I might move there.

[Yellowfin]

Louisiana did the same thing.

[cgbudde]

Read about this in todays NY Daily news, and guess who is adding their brainless anti-gun remarks to this.


South Carolina shoots holes in gun battle by peddling tax-free weapons for Black Friday
Michael Daly

Tuesday, November 24th 2009, 4:00 AM

Mic SmithArlyn T. Pendergast, president of A.T.P. Gun Shop & Indoor Range in Summerville, S.C. shows off a 50-caliber Desert Eagle handgun in his store on Monday.
Savulich/NewsTop cop Raymond Kelly and Mayor Bloomberg display weapons recovered in Monday's bust of Florida-to-N.Y.C. gun-trafficking gang. Related NewsArticlesCity rally fires barrage of outrage over tragediesVada's jackals cry about abuse in jailVasquez family: No Thanksgiving dinner without VadaTrue target in Vada Vasquez shooting speaksTeen shot in head by stray bullet taken off ventilatorThe great state of South Carolina is putting its own sick twist on Black Friday with a tax holiday on firearm purchases.

Not cars.

Not clothes.

Certainly not books.

Just guns.

For the 48 hours following Thanksgiving, gun buyers will enjoy a break of up to 9% in state and local taxes.

Firearms traffickers are not expected to pass the savings on to New York criminals, but what is called "the extrava-gun-za" and "Second Amendment Weekend" is sure to help South Carolina stay among the top five states that provide 85% of the illegal handguns recovered in New York City.

One of the other top states is Florida, believed to be the source of at least 40 guns city undercover cops bought in the last three months, NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly and Brooklyn District Attorney Joe Hynes said.

The tax holiday for firearms in South Carolina was first tacked onto a 2008 bill that provided similar breaks for energy efficient appliances.

Gov. Mark Sanford vetoed the legislation, though not because he disapproves of guns. He recently repealed the state's one-gun-a-month restriction.

Sanford disapproves of tax holidays, though he subsequently slipped away on a holiday of another kind, this with his mistress in Argentina.

The legislature overrode the tax holiday veto thanks to the efforts of Rep. Mike Pitts, the gun amendment's sponsor. The South Carolina Supreme Court then ruled the bill violated the "one subject rule" of the state's constitution, which bars multiple matters in a single bill.

The legislature solved the problem by dropping the energy efficiency part and keeping the firearms in time for this year's Black Friday. That was no doubt welcome news to the state's gun shops, which outnumber McDonald's in the Palmetto State by four to one.

Even without a tax holiday, South Carolina gun shops sold a half-million handguns in a 10-year period. The state's population is only 4.5 million.

The number of gun sales is expected to grow ever higher thanks to Pitts, who also sponsored a bill that reduced the age for possessing a handgun in South Carolina from 21 to 18.

"If my daughter were driving, as a 19- or 20-year-old, to Charleston," Pitts said the other day, "I could put my handgun in the glove compartment of my car and she could drive to Charleston without being a felon."

Pitts also is pushing the "South Carolina Firearms Freedom Act," which proposes to exempt guns manufactured in South Carolina from all federal restrictions.

Pitts is untroubled by statistics showing South Carolina is a leading supplier of illegal guns to New York and other cities. He applies what apparently passes for logic down there.

It's not our lax gun laws. It's our high crime-rate that causes the problems," he said the other day.

Pitts sought to illustrate his position by noting that a burglar had recently broken into his home and stolen "about a dozen guns."

"What's happening is people break into my home, steal my guns and get a premium price by taking it to other states and selling them," Pitts said.

Meanwhile, in Pitts' big extrava-gun-za, firearms traffickers will be able to enjoy a Black Friday tax holiday at gun shops across South Carolina, from Dead Bang Guns & Automatics to Freedom Guns and Pawn, The Gun Doctor and Pappy's Guns.

Monday, I gave a call to Woody's Pawn & Jewelry in Orangeburg, one of 15 gun shops Mayor Bloomberg cited in 2006 for making an illegal sale to an undercover. At the time, Woody's sold 98 guns that were connected to crimes in New York City.

I got as far as saying I was from the New York Daily News.

"I don't care to comment to anything in New York," owner Chan Holman said.

This is what Mayor Bloomberg had to say about the tax-free gun sale: "Law-abiding citizens have every right to buy a gun, but South Carolina is a top exporter of guns used in crimes. First we'd like to see South Carolina repair and enforce its lax gun laws."

Holman obviously disagrees. He told another reporter he expects a big jump in business come Black Friday.

"I'm even thinking about tearing down a building next to the store and using it for parking," Holman said. "We'll be open an hour early and staying open later depending on the crush of business. ... We have a lot of inventory to get rid of."

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...#ixzz0XmQUJPN1






Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...#ixzz0XmPjjeQL

[H.E. Pennypacker]

As if we need any more incentive to buy firearms. Lucky South Carolinian bastards.

[LDMF]

S.C. is now on the list of possible places to move/retire.

[WhiteFeather]

If you like the concept of tax free firearms and accessories

PA has ALL of these bills and more that you can contact your Rep to support.

IF YOU want them speak up, just "hoping" it will "change" won't get it done.

Read more about all of these and more PRO - GUN legislation here..

http://acslpa.org/n-legislative/pa_p...egislation.htm


Rep Pyle's HB 2049 – ‘Parking Lot Bill’ modeled after FL law (employees can keep lawfully carried firearms in their vehicles).

Rep Rohrer's HB 1988 – Firearm Freedom Act (modeled after the Montana and Tennessee laws).

Rep Stevenson HB 121 – Tax free holiday to buy firearms.

Rep Stevenson HB 66 – LTCF

Rep Readshaw HB 332 – Tax free gun safes

Rep Baker HB 419 – Amends Constitution right to hunt / fish

Rep Turzai HB 750 – LTCF (Transportation of Firearms clarification in law)

Rep Petri HB 761 – Sentence for crimes committed with firearms

Rep Creighton HB 778 – Tax free sales for firearms.

Rep Dally HB 952 – Making PA rifle the official firearm of PA.

Rep Cutler HB 1438 – Providing grants for shooting ranges.

Rep Metcalfe HB 1541 – Preemption by local government.

We got all of these and more Pro gun bills introduced because of the 2nd rallies and people on PAFOA contacting the Reps.

IF YOU WANT THEM, do your part by contact the Reps in Harrisburg!

more info in law & politics section on PAFOA on some of these