As Amended
SEC. 97-37-31. Silencers on firearms; manufacture, sale, possession or use unlawful.
It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, corporation, or manufacturing establishment, within this state, to make or manufacture for sale in the State of Mississippi, 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. It shall be unlawful to sell, offer for sale or to give away, in this state any such instrument or device, and it shall be unlawful for any person to own, use or have in his possession, any such instrument or device. Any person, corporation or manufacturing establishment violating this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars and not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not less than thirty days nor more than sixty days, or both.
SOURCES: Codes, Hemingway's 1917, Secs. 1110 et seq.; 1930, Sec. 1139; 1942, Sec. 2376; Laws, 1910, ch. 139.