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Mississippi penalizes:
- Any person who knowingly solicits, persuades, encourages or entices a licensed dealer or private seller of firearms or ammunition to transfer a firearm or ammunition under circumstances which the person knows would violate federal or state law; or
- Any person who provides to a licensed dealer or private seller of firearms or ammunition what the person knows to be materially false information with intent to deceive the dealer or seller about the legality of a transfer of a firearm or ammunition.1
“Materially false information” means information that portrays an illegal transaction as legal or a legal transaction as illegal.2
Mississippi prohibits any person from knowingly or intentionally transferring, or attempting to transfer, a stolen firearm.3
Mississippi has no other laws aimed at firearms trafficking.
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