Georgia Senate passes bill to create 11-day sales tax holiday for guns

The Georgia Senate has advanced a measure that would create a sales tax holiday for guns and related items.

Senate Bill 47 would designate 11 days, starting on the second Friday in October each year, for firearms, ammunition, gun safes, and related accessories sales to be exempt from sales and use taxes.

SB 47 would remove the Georgia sales and use tax for an 11-day period, beginning the second Friday in October of each year, for the sale of firearms, ammunition, gun safes, and related accessories. #gapol #gasenate

— Georgia State Senate (@GASenatePress) February 12, 2025

Democrats in the state bash the measure, invoking the Sept. 4, 2024, shooting at Apalachee High School in Barrow County that left two students and two teachers dead.

“This bill is disrespectful to gun violence victims, survivors, and the countless millions who have lost loved ones to this epidemic. And yet again, the majority’s answer to every question is more guns, more guns, more guns,” state Sen. Elena Parent, D-Atanta, said in a statement.