Deputies pick up donated rifles

Deputy Cortez Peebles, Deputy Gerald Willis, Sheriff Eric Clark, gunsmith Dave Davis and 601 Sports General Manager Christine Hemphill pose with rifles recently donated to the Neshoba County Sheriff’s Department. 

The Board of Supervisors approved the acceptance of the weapons in July “A donor who wanted to remain anonymous said he had been blessed financially in the past year and he wanted to contribute to something he believed in,” Sheriff Eric Clark said. “He said he believed we were doing a good job and he actually donated seven custom patrol rifles to our department.” 

The guns were made at 601Sports in Meridian. 

They are AR Platform rifles with a 10 1/2-inch barrel. 

“The gentleman walked into 601Sports, ordered the rifles, and wrote a check for them,” Clark said. “601Sports has finished building the rifles. They have test fired them and run them through the initial test phase. They have to have a license to distribute these guns and they are waiting on the paperwork to go through. I have sent a letter recognizing this will be for duty use only. It should be any day we will get them.”