Posted on 06/28/2018 4:31:56 AM PDT by marktwain
In November of 2011, the Mississippi legislature restored the right to carry concealed weapons in most public buildings, including courthouses, but not courtrooms while a judicial proceeding was in process, to people with an enhanced concealed carry permit.
Some judges in Mississippi attempted to reverse the modest restoration of the right to bear arms. They banned the carry of concealed firearms within 200 feet of any door to any courtroom. In 2016, Rick Ward, a Second Amendment activist, filed a petition to the Supreme Court, complaining that the judges had overstepped their authority. On June 7, 2018, the Supreme Court ruled in Ward's favor. From starkvilledailynews.com:
The court prohibited concealed carry within 200 feet of any door to any courtroom of Fourteenth Chancery District courthouses in Lowndes, Oktibbeha Clay, Noxubee, Chickasaw and Webster counties.
Ward, along with the state Attorney General Jim Hood and the National Rifle Association, argued that the order was invalid.
Following the court order, enhanced concealed-carry licensee Ricky Ward filed a petition to modify or dismiss the order. The chancellors then issued an order denying the petition and doubled down on their order blocking concealed carry permit holders from bringing guns into the courthouse.
Ward moved forward, though, and requested the Mississippi Supreme Court vacate the order as unconstitutional and in conflict with state law.
The state’s highest court agreed, calling the orders “unconstitutional on their face.”
The Supreme Court ruled the judges of the lower courts exceeded their authority . From courts.ms.gov:
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Who does this include/not include. Sounds elitist.
Enhanced CC includes places that are restricted to regular CC. Places include courthouses, state government offices, bars that serve alcohol, sporting events to name a few. I separate educational requirement is necessary. That is is Arkansas anyway.
The Constitutional story on firearms isn’t about any kind of permits (open carry or concealed carry) which is what the Republican Party and its allied front groups have convinced many is the Second Amendment’s front line of defense.
There’s been a retreat from the front line of the 2A over the decades because of fear of gangsters in the 1930’s and fear of assassins in the 1960’s and fear of mass murderers in recent times.
Here in Minnesota we’ve had courts banning carry in court buildings - and in public libraries that were “in the same building” as the courts, in that they shared a wall but had no interior door between them.
So, in Mississippi you can now carry concealed in the state courthouse?
Eff permits & licences.
If you have the “enhanced permit”.
I understand it is “shall issue”.
Nothing soils a black-robed clown’s adult diaper faster than realizing that a peasant can have an “equalizer”...
Tyrants gonna tyrannize...
Yes, it seems comically obvious on the face of it, but sadly tHat is an all too rare occurrence in America today. Many liberal politicians oppose their own state Constitutions and ate able to find appeals courts loke the Ninth Circus to do their bidding. You would hope in a sane America, every court would uphold its state’s constitution, but it is not so. Many judicial activists simply ignore their states’s constitutions and overrule them capriciously. Liberals don’t care. The ends justify the means to liberal commie Rats. They are unlawful tyrants.
Mississippi ping
Similar in MS. Enhanced requires a course that includes firing 100 rounds but many can bypass that requirement if they had prior training - my 24 years military service was used for my enhanced carry permit.
While regular carry permit doesn't require any proficiency training, one must assume they want someone who has demonstrated proficiency to carry in some areas....not perfect but MS has made great strides since I came here and seems to be one of the better places as far as being armed goes - not too long ago, they also deemed that concealed carry permit is only required for those who carry in a manner that allows very quick access to the weapon (holster/waist band, etc.) and a woman can keep a weapon in her purse w/o a permit and same for those with fanny packs and similar containers that conceal but aren't designed for ready use.
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