Mississippi's open carry law to go into effect Monday

[Ed Anger]

Ohio is thinking about adopting Stand Your Ground. And more importantly, banning red light cameras.

I think I've only encountered one red light camera, and it's all the way up in Middletown.

Springfield is chock full of them.

[CountDeMoney]

Wait, this applies to blacks too?

Lulz.

[Caliga]

Scip, chill.  We have pretty much those same laws here and it's cool.

I don't know if you can open carry into a bar but you definitely cannot carry concealed in one, so you probably can't carry openly either.

[alfred russel]

I thought you weren't allowed to carry guns in the town of Tombstone? 

The one time an elected official in Mississippi takes a rational stand on an issue like gun control, he still gets it wrong. 

[Admiral Yi]

Presumably a bar owner can post a sign forbidding weapons?

[Berkut]

Presumably a bar owner can post a sign forbidding weapons?

Only if he is hysterical.

[alfred russel]

Presumably a bar owner can post a sign forbidding weapons?

I was recently reading that almost no one could pass the literacy tests they used to give in the South. That may not be effective.

[Grey Fox]

Is it legal to use someone else's gun to shoot them while protecting yourself from them?

[Caliga]

Is it legal to use someone else's gun to shoot them while protecting yourself from them?

I don't see why not.

[Grey Fox]

I like this law. All the defense, none of the hassle.

[dps]

"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."

Does that language not actually narrow down your rights? What did it say previously?

No, that's the constitutional language.  HB 2, which modifies a number of state laws, basically says that carrying in a holster is open carry, not concealed, and that open carry is presumed legal, and they can't Terry stop you for carrying  a legal firearm openly.

Since the contitutional language specifically gives the legislature the power to regulate or forbid concealed carry, but apparantly says nothing about open carry, it would seem that a reasonable interpretation would be that the legislature can't regulate or forbid open carry.  And I would consider carrying a gun in a holster to be open carry, unless the holster itself is conceal, as f.e., a shoulder holster worn under a jacket.  I don't really see an issue here, given the wording of your state constitution.