[OneWingedShark]

A truely bizzare ruling. All the law does is clarify the definition of what is concealed carry, from a vague previous definition that was being used to stop open carry.

True, it is bizarre; though I really have to ask how it was even possible to stop open carry:

MS Constitution, [Art 3,] SECTION 12.
The right of every citizen to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person, or property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall not be called in question, but the legislature may regulate or forbid carrying concealed weapons.

As you can see the only authority the legislature has is over concealed carry. — I suppose that they could resolve this issue by deleting the last 10 words of the section though.

[marktwain]

The previous law prohibited carrying weapons that were “concealed in whole or in part”, and courts and the AG had used this to mean that open carry was forbidden, because a weapon carried in anyway, even by a “thong around the neck”
was “partly concealed, even if it was only a fraction of a square inch of the pistol “concealed” by the thong.

This was the sort of jucicial activism that the legislation was meant to stop.