Missouri
The per-capita murder rate in Missouri: 4.59. The Brady Center rating: 4 points, tying it for 39th in the nation on strong gun laws. If you're going to St. Louis, you might want to go armed.
by MidwayUSA
October 25, 2011
October 25, 2011
Columbia, MO - MidwayUSA, (click here) a catalog and Internet retailer offering JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING for Shooting, Reloading, Gunsmithing and Hunting, is pleased to welcome Missouri Governor, Jay Nixon, and Executive Director of the Conservation Federation of Missouri, Dave Murphy, to the MidwayUSA Campus on Tuesday, November 1, to kick off the 2011 Share the Harvest program with the Missouri Department of Conservation.
Share the Harvest is a state-funded program that distributes donated venison to families in need with the help of organizations and businesses across the state of Missouri. The program is administered by both the Missouri Department of Conservation and the Conservation Federation of Missouri in collaboration with local food banks. Governor Nixon will visit MidwayUSA to talk about the importance of the program and businesses that support hunting in Missouri....
I really don't believe a venison give away program justifies lack of gun laws. That is all very interesting. A deer is a large mammal with considerable muscle on its skeleton for distribution to others, but, there is no feel good program that should pre-empt gun laws.
No state permit is required for the purchase of rifles, shotguns or handguns.
It is unlawful to knowingly sell, lease, loan, give away or deliver a firearm or ammunition to any person who is not lawfully entitled to possess one. It is unlawful to recklessly sell, lease, loan, give away or deliver a firearm or ammunition to a person who is intoxicated. It is unlawful to knowingly sell, lease, loan, give away or deliver any firearm to a person who is not eighteen years old without the consent of the custodial parent or guardian.
I am confused. It requires no state permit to buy the darn things so why say in the law "...not lawfully entitled to possess one."
The Missouri gun laws are virtually non-existent. And I found this pre-emption statute absolutely amazing.
2. No county, city, town, village, municipality, or other political subdivision of this state shall adopt any order, ordinance or regulation concerning in any way the sale, purchase, purchase delay, transfer, ownership, use, keeping, possession, bearing, transportation, licensing, permit, registration, taxation other than sales and compensating use taxes or other controls on firearms, components, ammunition, and supplies except as provided in subsection 3 of this section.
So, basically, if St. Louis has a gun problem; let's say similar to Washington, DC; it could not legislate anything different than the state legislates. Is that constitutional? Can a state impose lack of law legislation on a city? Snyder is trying that with state conservation laws. There cannot be any stricter laws on the books than what the federal laws provide. It is very similar to North Carolina baloney. It doesn't matter if the state bird is failing in Michigan, unless it is endangered or threatened on a federal level.
Amazing.
But, I believe there is a real challenge to the constitutionality of such limiting laws on cities.
