by Ashley Byrd | Jan 7, 2020 | Crime / Courts, News
Kansas Mayor Quenton Lucas and the city council are using a legal tactic to try to slow record-level gun violence in the city: suing gun companies for “looking the other way” in what the attorneys call obvious illegal trafficking. Lucas says the public...
by Ashley Byrd | Sep 11, 2019 | Crime / Courts, News, Politics / Govt
Governor Mike Parson, St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson and County Executive Sam Page held a press conference after meeting with law enforcement and other city leaders about the area’s continued spike in violent crime. The governor calls it “a crisis in our...
by Mike Lear | May 14, 2014 | News
The state House has passed this year’s attempt at a law to nullify federal gun laws in Missouri. The bill would declare null and void any current or future gun law or regulation that infringes on the right to keep and bear arms. Representative Doug Funderburk...
by Jessica Machetta | Jun 27, 2013 | Crime / Courts, News, Politics / Govt
Kansas City Mayor Sly James says gun control and violence was a hot topic at the annual conference of mayors. James has strong opinions on how to solve the problem … local control. The Center for American Progress says Missouri ranks eighth in the nation for gun...
by Mike Lear | Feb 20, 2013 | News
The House Committee on General Laws has held hearings on two bills whose sponsors say they are needed to protect the gun rights of Missourians. Representative Casey Guernsey (R-Bethany) has offered HB 170 that would make it a class “D” felony to enforce or...
