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Gun sales are up over 10% compared to this time last year in Mississippi.

I’m sure a recent change to the concealed weapon law caused it. As of this month “No license shall be required for a loaded or unloaded pistol or revolver carried in a purse, handbag, satchel or other similar bag or briefcase or fully enclosed case.” - 49-9-101 (24)

Because it is concealed I believe 21 is the minimum age and the other requirements also apply. However, an 18 year old may have a concealed firearm or deadly weapon in the confines of his own home or place of business or any real property associated with his home or place of business or within any motor vehicle.

The change was mostly directed for the purpose of women protecting themselves. I’m just wondering if a pistol or revolver can be carried in a fanny pack? A case could be made that it is similar to a purse or handbag with a shoulder strap. Anyone willing to be a participant in a test case? :D
 
Is a permit still required there to carry a loaded handgun in a holster in one's waistband? If so it seems rather ironic to allow it in a purse but not in a holster which would obviously be way more secure. I'm not a fan of purse carry to put it lightly.:)
 
No permits are required for open carry. In 2013 the Mississippi legislature passed a bill clarifying that no license was required to open carry a handgun in a holster. A bunch of folks carry that way around here.
 
Not fanny packs unless you carry it. A fanny pack is attached to the body and so counts as a concealing holster. If you were to carry the fanny pack in your hand or as a purse on your shoulder, it would be okay. A purse loosely attaches to the body, but they are readily and easily removed one-handed.

Basically, if it is encumbering and concealing like a bag, briefcase, and to a much lesser extent a purse, etc it doesn't require a license. If it is non-encumbering and concealing like a fanny pack, or concealing holster it is concealed. If it is a standard holster on the belt or leg, it is open carry.
 
This law has "good-'ol-boy" written all over it. You can tell it was drafted by a bunch of old white men who concluded amongst themselves, "only miscreants would want to carry concealed on body without a permit. If they were respectable, they'd have a permit...or jobs and a briefcase... or they'd stay at home like my wife."

Ah Mississippi...

Here's an idea, get out of your fiefdom mentality and embrace Constitutional Carry...

Seriously, offbody > than on body? Who thought this through?
 
Prince Yamato - What are you talking about???

Mississippi is a shall issue State and recently they corrected a misinterpretation on a open carry law that is in our State Constitution and it also forbids the police to stop an open carrier to check them out with a background check to eliminate harassment from open carry.

Mississippi also has an enhanced pistol permit that allows licensed concealed weapon carrier to go into schools, courthouses and can ignore signs that forbid carrying into private businesses.

This new law is another step in the direction of eliminating permits altogether.

Mississippi accepts ALL States carry permits without requiring reciprocity.

Mississippi also allows any active or honorably retired police officer from ANY State to carry concealed without a permit.

Texas doesn’t even come close to respecting the Second Amendment as Mississippi does.

I’m an “old white man” and I find your comment to be racist, so why don’t you work on bringing Texas up to speed with Mississippi instead of mocking us.
 
"This law has "good-'ol-boy" written all over it. You can tell it was drafted by a bunch of old white men who concluded amongst themselves, "only miscreants would want to carry concealed on body without a permit. If they were respectable, they'd have a permit...or jobs and a briefcase... or they'd stay at home like my wife."

Ah Mississippi..."

Ah, prejudice towards Mississippi. Condescention is oh so nice. It's kind of like snow birds - those folks who come to our state during the winter - telling us how we really should run things they way they do them in Michigan or Iowa.

No license needed to carry off body concealed, non-licensed open carry, shall issue concealed carry, fully legal non-license carry in the car.

And that is bad and we are a bunch of rednecks.

I thought for a moment I was reading Neil Young. Suddenly the iconic words of Lynyrd Skynyrd came to mind:

"Well I heard Prince Yamato post about her
I heard Yamato put her down.
Well I hope Prince Yamato can remember:
Mississippi Man don't need him around, anyhow.

Sweet Home Mississippi"
 
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It's funny how we become so defensive of our home states and what at times are odd and even stupid laws.
I guess we need to view things on the continuum of positive advances.
 
Mississippi appears to be heading for permitless carry. We have made several gains in the past few years and I would not be surprised to see the permit become optional like Alaska. This will take a few more years but it is happening.
 
Looks like a Maxpeditions Versipack would be an option here. A 'tactical man-bag' designed to carry a gun. Off body carry. It's not just for ladies.
 
It is common in some European countries for men to carry purses, either with shoulder straps or just in the hand. Maybe the idea will catch on here if other states enact the same kind of legislation.

Jim
 
Both of my bags have built in belts/straps to secure around the waist in addition to slung over the shoulder. If one was using the waist attachment in conjunction with the shoulder strap I guess you'd be in violation since it was attached?
 
This law has "good-'ol-boy" written all over it. You can tell it was drafted by a bunch of old white men who concluded amongst themselves, "only miscreants would want to carry concealed on body without a permit. If they were respectable, they'd have a permit...or jobs and a briefcase... or they'd stay at home like my wife."

Ah Mississippi...

Here's an idea, get out of your fiefdom mentality and embrace Constitutional Carry...

Seriously, offbody > than on body? Who thought this through?
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:scrutiny: How does someone from Texas bad mouth Mississippi law? MS had permit carry 4 years before TX. They've also had OC for awhile and TX wont have it until next year. When they rounded up all the good-ol-boys and sent them all to MS they missed more than a few in TX.

Ask me how I know. Born and raised in TX.
 
Our gun rights were lost in small increments over many years. We need to get them back the same way. Any new law should be looked at and measured by whether it is an improvement and adds any liberties, no matter how small, and considered one more small increment towards a goal of Constitutional carry. Instead of looking at what it does not include, we need to be glad that it adds one more option than we had yesterday.
 
Ok, I'll bite.

MS has campus carry but it doesn't apply to students or faculty except at Ol' Miss. All the other colleges are left with the option to prohibit students or staff from carrying on campus. The Attorney General's 2013 ruling was without teeth. The schools didn't budge on their positions.

MS was still prosecuting open carriers until recently.

Their non-gun related legislation also reeks of political fiefdom.

Written law and implementation are two different things.

Much like the botched campus carry, I suspect that this was also a "throw a bone to the peons" move. Something is better than nothing, I agree, but a lot of these laws see like heavily worded air disguised as a win for gun rights.

How does someone from Texas bad mouth Mississippi law? MS had permit carry 4 years before TX. They've also had OC for awhile and TX wont have it until next year
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I am not my state. Texas had and still has some dumb laws. The open carry ban was another good-ol-boy law. You're correct. I still feel that there's a strong statist Dixiecrat mentality in the south sometimes. It runs in both parties. You see it rear its head when a politician is forced to play a risky political position, like campus carry or OC. They'll literally give you everything BUT what you want. Permitless open carry for Texas? No! Can't have that! Permits!Money for the state. Rick Perry's anti-OC comments.
 
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TimSr - Great attitude.

Using the same tactic that the antis use is the smart thing to do. Reversing the antis dismantling of our gun rights piece by piece and getting them and more back is a great strategy… right out of their playbook.


Prince Yamato - Don’t bite. Just read posts:
#11 by Ash
#12 by X-rap
#13 by Double J
#17 by CoalTrain49 especially since he is from Texas

And since you are biting, I still want to know why you are prejudiced against old white men.
 
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Time to buy a "man purse"?

So, would my motorcycle saddle bags count?
They separate when off the bike, and each has a carry handle.
Like a handbag. A BIG, manly handbag.

Maybe I should hop on the bike and head over to MS and visit family in Jackson, Macon, Leland, and Greenville.
If I go to Greenville, I'll definitely need to carry. It's gotten rough.
 
Same or similar story has aired on a couple of stations here in south MS, I believe it reflects background checks run, or that was the evidence stated in the story I saw. I would think the general reduction in prices here lately might be having an effect also. I have, however, had quite a few questions from females asking the details of the new law.

I also believe we will have permit-less carry here within a very few years, the laws are loosening here every year it seems. When I first applied for the permit years ago you'd very rarely see anyone else applying or renewing, now there's a line.
 
Parts of Jackson are pretty bad, some areas of that city rival the bad parts of NOLA. Last time I went through Greenville the downtown looked like it was about to dry up and blow away. If you go and have a couple of hours to kill stop in at Winterville Mounds, cool place, just north of Greenville.
 
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