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Mississippi

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Mississippi. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the territorial period through statehood to the present.

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    The Charter and Code of the Ordinances of Yazoo City 172-75 (1908)
    (1906)
    Section 291 penalized the use of live pigeons for target shooting. Sections 293-300 regulate concealed weapons and their sale or use. Carrying a concealed deadly weapon is a misdemeanor punishable by a $25–$100 fine, up to 90 days in jail, or both, and the weapon is forfeited and destroyed. Exceptions include self-defense, travelers, peace officers, mail carriers, and certain workers. Dealers must record weapon and ammunition sales. Selling or lending weapons to minors or intoxicated people is prohibited. Additional penalties apply to parents allowing young sons to carry weapons, weapons in public schools, and displaying or using deadly weapons in a threatening manner.
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    Ordinance no. 12, § 2, in Oxford Eagle, Jul. 7, 1898, at 2
    (1898)
    Prohibited brandishing deadly weapons in a rude, angry, or threatening manner.
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    1916 Miss. Laws 388-89
    (1916)
    Ch. 245 § 14(d): It shall be unlawful for any body of men whatsoever, other than the regularly organized land and naval militia of this state, the land and naval forces of the United States, and the students of public or of regularly chartered educational institutions where military science is a prescribed part of the course of instruction, to associate themselves together as a military organization for drill or parade in public with firearms in this state, without special license from the governor for each occasion
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    1898 Miss. Laws 22
    (1898)
    Ch. 5, § 63: Imposed 5 dollar tax on pistol dealers
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    1898 Miss. Laws 86
    (1898)
    Ch. 68: Amended 1896 Miss. Laws 109-10, ch. 104 to prohibit the conceal carry bowie knives, dirks, butcher knives, pistols, metal knuckles, slingshots, sword, or other deadly weapons of like kind. Violations deemed a misdemeanor and fined not less than twenty-five dollars but no more than one hundred dollars.
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    Ordinance no. 25, in Oxford Eagle, Jul. 7, 1898, at 2
    (1898)
    Any marshal or night-watchmen who fails or refuses to report, arrest, or bring to trial anyone who has violated any ordinance of the town shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined twenty-five dollars.
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    1900 Miss. Laws 51-52
    (1900)
    Ch. 49: The auditor of the public accounts shall, by the first day of February in each year, furnish the clerk of the board of supervisors of each county with three copies of blank assessment rolls, and counties having two judicial districts shall be furnished with four copies; said roll shall be made of good paper, neatly and substantially bound and properly ruled and headed for the assessment of personal property and polls, in which to enter the following items: . . . sixteenth column, number of guns over one; seventeenth column, number of pistols, bowie knives, dirks or sword canes[.]
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    1906 Miss. Laws 367
    (1906)
    Ch. 114, § 3887: On each person or firm dealing in pistols, dirk knives, sword canes, brass or metallic knuckles, or other deadly weapons (shotguns and rifles excepted) - 100.00. And which shall be in addition to all and any other taxes or privileges paid. On each firm or dealer selling air guns, target or flobert rifles (and this shall apply even if the same has a license to sell merchandise, pistols or cartridges) - $25.00.
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    1892 Miss. Laws 193-4, 198
    (1892)
    Ch. 74: Mandated tax assessors to have prepared rolls of taxable items, including guns(more than one), pistols, Bowie knives, dirks, and sword canes.
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    Miss. Code Ann. ch. 29, § 1030 (1892)
    (1892)
    § 1030: Prohibited students in any university, college, or school from carrying, bringing, receiving, owning, having on campus, college, or school grounds, or within two miles thereof, any weapon of which concealed carry is prohibited. Also includes teachers, instructors, or professors from knowingly suffer or permit those weapons to be carried. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, fined not more than three hundred dollars or imprisoned not exceeding three months, or both.
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    Miss. Code Ann. ch. 29, § 1247 (1892)
    (1892)
    Ch. 29, § 1247: If any person shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, any toy pistol, or cartridges or caps, or other contrivance by which such pistols are fired or made to cause an explosion, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be punished by fine not less than five dollars nor more than twenty five dollars or imprisonment in the county jail not less than three days nor more than thirty days, or both.
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    Miss. Const. of 1890 art. III, § 12
    (1890)
    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.
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    Miss. Code Ann. ch. 29, § 1026 (1892)
    (1892)
    § 1026: "Any person who carries concealed, in whole or in part any bowie-knife, dirk-knife, butcher-knife, pistol, brass or metallic knuckles, slung-shot, sword, or other deadly weapon of like kind or description?"
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    1896 Miss. Laws 109-10
    (1896)
    Ch. 104: Prohibited the carrying of a concealed Bowie knife, dirk, butcher knife, pistol, brass or metallic knuckles, slingshot, sword, or other deadly weapon "of like kind or description."