JACKSON — Gov. Phil Bryant’s staff suggested that the Department of Public Safety should delay fulfilling requests for gun permit records until a law could be enacted to shield them from public scrutiny, emails obtained by The Associated Press show. The emails, obtained under a public records request, show Bryant staff counsel Jack Wilson on [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 5,2013
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JACKSON — A new Mississippi law says the public no longer has access to records of state-issued permits to carry concealed weapons. Republican Gov. Phil Bryant signed House Bill 485 yesterday, and it became law immediately. Legislators pushing the bill said they were responding to a New York newspaper’s decision earlier this year to publish [...] [...]
JACKSON — A Mississippi Senate committee approved a bill today that would make it difficult to get information on weapon permits, including concealed carry permits. The bill would exclude the permit information from the state public records act. A court order would be required to obtain the data. A representative of Gov. Phil Bryant’s office [...] [...]
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