(AP) — Paul McCrory won’t go deer hunting until November, but Louisiana’s new “sales tax holiday” on hunting equipment makes this weekend his best opportunity to shop for bullets and a new rifle. Gun shop owners report customers like McCrory are enthusiastically planning to stock up on bullets, shells, shotguns, rifles and handguns — all of which will be sold without the 6 percent state sales tax or local sales taxes Friday through Sunday. That means a 9-percent tax break for Baton Rouge shoppers. “This will help the businesses out, because it encourages people to buy things at a lower price. It helps everybody out in the long run,” said McCrory, 28, a Baton Rouge pipefitter. “I’m going to buy the rifle, ammo and all the fun stuff that go with it.” The tax break is a good fit for the state known as “Sportsman’s Paradise.” It debuts at the same time dove hunting season starts.