A St. Louis lawmaker has filed a bill aimed at temporarily removing firearms from people in the middle of a mental health crisis. Democratic Representative Steve Butz told Missourinet that the measure would give families and law enforcement a critical tool to prevent...
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...
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...
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...
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...
