Posted June 23, 2015 8:37 am by Comments

By Bob Owens

There is a right way to open carry and wrong way, and two idiots in Gulfport, Mississippi took the “wrong way” to the extreme Sunday, brandishing and racking a loaded shotgun in a crowded store:

Gulfport Police Chief Leonard Papania held a press conference Monday afternoon to discuss a situation that had many Walmart shoppers terrified Sunday evening.

“That’s not normal.”

That’s what Papania said about two men who went into Walmart, Winn Dixie and Krispy Kreme armed with a shotgun.

While openly carrying a firearm in Mississippi is legal, Papania said this situation could have turned into “a very violent misunderstanding.”

According to authorities, the two men walked into the Walmart on Highway 49 around 8 p.m. Witnesses said the man holding the shotgun was actively loading and racking the firearm. Walmart does not have a policy about guns inside its stores.

I don’t confess to be knowledgeable about the specifics of firearms law in Mississippi, but if the account is correct that these men were loading and racking (chambering a round) a shotgun inside a store, they would have certainly been violating multiple laws in most states.

For example, here in North Carolina they would have been arrested for brandishing a weapon, going …read more

Source:: Bearing Arms

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