“Open Carry” Idiots Finally Arrested in Mississippi

By Bob Owens

Do you remember the incident last weekend in Gulfport, Missisippi, where a pair of morons brandished, loaded, and then racked a round into the chamber of a shotgun, and the local police chief attempted to claim that he couldn’t charge them with anything?

After being hammered relentlessly and reminded of the numerous charges he could and should have charged them with, the pair have now been arrested.

Gulfport Police Chief Leonard Papania had said early this week two men who entered Wal-Mart and two other businesses Sunday with a shotgun wouldn’t be charged with a crime, but Friday the department said the two were arrested for disturbance of the peace.

Holton Wade Saucier, 19, of Saucier, who carried the shotgun into the stores, was arrested on disturbance in a public place and disturbance of public peace charges. Bond was set by Municipal Judge Fant Walker at $1,054.50.

William Cordell Kennon, 18, of Gulfport, was arrested on a disturbance in a public place charge and Walker set his bond at $677.25.

The two were released pending trial.

Police said Saucier “engaged in the lawful open carry of a pump-action shotgun,” but he then loaded the shotgun and pumped it in front of witnesses, …read more

Source:: Bearing Arms