Posted on 08/30/2013 5:16:23 AM PDT by marktwain
The judge ruled the bill was unconstitutionally vague.
The Supreme Court decided that decision was incorrect.
House Bill 2 would allow people without a permit to carry firearms as long as they are within sight. Concealed weapons still require a permit.
It’s early and I’m still on my first cup of coffee. What the hell is this article saying?
You mean only the legislature can create a new law and not the courts or the chief executive? What do you want, separation of powers? You anti-Leftist, Constitution-supporting, pro-American you.
It's saying that the good folks of Mississippi will soon be able to carry openly without a permit. When Gov Bryant signed the change to the MS Constitution to remove the gun-grabber loopholes that existed, a pet judge of the Left pout up an injunction which stopped it from going into effect on 1 Jul as planned.
The MS Constitution has long held that open carry was a right and permits were only required to conceal carry. Activist judges deemed that a holster either completely or partly concealed a weapon, so a gun in a holster on your hp was really a concealed weapon. This type "interpretation" of what "concealed" meant kept MS citizens from being able to open carry IAW the Constitution. The Gov clarified that a holster did not constitute concealment. And put the Constitution in unassailable effect - this means we can now open carry and if we conceal carry, it is not an infraction if part of the weapon becomes visible because we have just transitioned from conceal carry to open carry. prior to the change, a concealed weapon had to stay completely concealed (ironic since judges had ruled that if any part was concealed, it constituted conceal carry and required a permit).
The pet judge tried to use old, incorrect, paradigms to prevent Constitutional open carry and used the same "logic" Clinton tried when he questioned the meaning of "is".
I'm now waiting to see if the Supreme Court ruling means that open carry goes into effect immediately or if there will be another planned start date.
The whole deal started when some cops decided to try to stop it because they "hadn't had time to adjust" despite a 5-6 month delay in the original implementation that was there specifically to allow police departments to get used to the idea and not go ape because they saw weapons that weren't being held by cops out in public.
Enjoy your coffee - mine started tasting better when I saw the story...
That judge should meet a party, a blanket and the night time in a back alley.
Woo Hoo! Just went to a local news site: http://www.wlox.com/story/23290974/state-supreme-court-upholds-open-carry-gun-law and it says the law goes into effect immediately - no longer have to worry about an accidental “brandishing” charge if someone espies my weapon.
That's racist - he is a Black pet of the Left... Glad to see that the MS Supreme Court wasn't intimidated into bowing to a Black judge - perhaps Holder will have some comments...
Yeah...that’s me.. Racist, even when I didn’t even know the judge’s color....the very fact he turns out to be a black activist makes me racist when I condemn him.
Thanks, and I raise my second cup of coffee to the Second, to the Mississippi Supreme Court and to you.
I wonder how this will go over in the socialist enclave of Jackson? The communist mayor there will probably brand the ruling as racist.
MS ping
Sorry if you took it wrong - I have seen your posts and thought that maybe the /sarc could be dispensed with because of the inanity of the "charge".
Such is the way of the world in the time of Obastard. See the tag!
Nope, no problem with your reply. Sorry if I made you think otherwise.. I was just cementing the point.
My bad....We be good here FRiend.
The 1992 law was plain enough. AG jim hood was behind the interputation that caused open carry to be illegal and an inadvertant exposure of a concealed weapon by a liscensed individual to be a criminal act. He’s a democrat and has worked with those in his office and those in Jackson who filed the suit with judge kidd to cause all these problems and drama. Our only statewide elected democrat making his mark.
Time and money wasted as well as disension among the people caused by jim, wouldn’t file against obamacare, hood.
You know the article was written poorly, when the article itself has a “clarification” trying to explain what it was saying.
A judge threw out the constitutional amendment, now the supreme court overruled the judge.
I did think I understood but in this crazy world thinking is sometimes the last thing you want to do.
No problem. We must have the same ironic sense of humor.
I grew up with little Waller
Glad to see his court acting right
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