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.
We need to design a “holster” that attackes to the belt and is a vertical rod. Place the barrel over the rod. To remove, lift the weapon off of the rod.
Yep - pretty sad when a pet judge can override a constitution. I still believe Gov Bryant will persevere. Doesn't affect me too much because I was not going to arbitrarily open carry, but it is still something the judge should be canned for. Makes one wonder if the judge went to the same schools as the illiterate witness on the Zimmerman trial - he obviously has trouble understanding the English language.
Maybe the next wording will be something like, "Mississippi citizens can carry any weapon of their choosing, openly or concealed and anything in between, however the hell they want to. Anyone who tries to infringe this Constitutional right will be expelled from the State."