MONTGOMERY, Alabama --- Alabama has sales tax holidays for back-to-school shopping and for severe weather preparedness.

A state lawmaker wants to add a third sales tax holiday,.

Rep. Becky Nordgen, R-Gadsden, has introduced a bill that would create a sales tax holiday for guns, ammunition and firearms supplies.

It would be scheduled the weekend before the Fourth of July.

“The anti-gun agenda being pursued by Barack Obama, Congressional Democrats, and other D.C. liberals has caused the cost of firearms and ammunition to skyrocket, and Alabamians, who embrace guns by long-standing tradition, deserve some relief,” Nordgren said in a news release.

“Holding a firearms sales tax holiday at the anniversary of our nation’s birth is the perfect way to celebrate the rights and independence that we hold close to our hearts as Americans.”

Nordgren’s bill, HB 559, would waive the 4 percent state sales tax on guns, ammunition and firearms supplies from Friday through Sunday prior to July 4 each year. There are 22 representatives listed as co-sponsors on Nordgren's bill.

Updated at 1:25 p.m. to add tax percentage rate.

