MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

1999 Regular Session

To: Judiciary

By: Senator(s) White (29th)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 97-37-31, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE MANUFACTURE, SALE, POSSESSION AND USE OF SILENCERS ON FIREARMS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

SECTION 1. Section 97-37-31, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

97-37-31. It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, corporation, or manufacturing establishment not duly authorized under federal law to make, manufacture, sell or possess any instrument or device which, if used on firearms of any kind, will arrest or muffle or tend to lessen the report of said firearm when shot or fired. * * * Any person * * * violating this section shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be fined * * * not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or imprisoned in the penitentiary not * * * more than ten (10) years, or both.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 1999.