Tax-Free Weekend on Guns…But in Tennessee?

Mississippi, Louisiana, and South Carolina are a few of the states offering the deal.

It was proposed in Tennessee…but hasn’t passed just yet.

"Unfortunately it didn’t come out of the senate this year mainly because of budgetary reasons," Tennessee State Senator Bo Watson (Hixson-R) said. "The bill had about a four hundred thousand dollar cost to it and one thing that we have to do in state government that our federal government doesn’t always do, actually doesn’t do, is we got to make our budget balance."

For smaller local gun stores that rely on gun sales, not every one is on board with the proposal.

"There is the debate about whether it’s going to be be good for a store like us being a smaller family runs store versus the Academys and Cabelas and Gander Mountains where they have a huge variety of other things they are selling as well," Trentyn Murrell with Shooters Depot said. "It’s going to make people say like, oh well, I want to buy a new gun. I’m going to wait until that weekend. And I’m not going to go in before or after that."

The states who have enacted the tax-free weekend report enormous success in gun sales for the weekend.

Tennessee Senator Frank Nicely proposed the bill last winter and though it didn’t make it through this go around, officials are optimistic in the next year or two, Tennessee will be offering the same deal.

"We’ve got to be able to pay for anything that we want to do," Senator Watson said. "This is one of those that’s a great idea. I think it has a lot of support. It’s just going to take us a little bit of time to figure out how to pay for it."