Missouri allows guns without a permit
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Missouri Allows Carrying Guns
Without A Permit
Do you like carrying guns but don’t have a permit to legally carry one in public? Â Well, go to Missouri — you don’t need a permit.
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Yes, you read correctly… Missouri has now become the latest state to allow residents to carry a firearm without a permit, or to even need a moment of training to operate one. Beginning January 1, 2017, gun owners will be allowed to walk around the State of Missouri carrying a gun as free as a bird. No license required. Now, you can’t drive a car, truck, bus, or motorcycle without proper training and the proper license, but a gun? Go right ahead! Â No training, permit, or license necessary.
Oh, and just to add a bit of icing to the cake, Missouri also passed (during the same session) a controversial “stand your ground” provision, which will allow residents to use deadly force on public property if they perceive a threat.  Here’s how that might work:
Let’s say you’re walking through a city park in Missouri and you see someone looking at you “funny.” Â Well, you can simply pull out your unlicensed gun and shoot them — and the entire melee will all be perfectly legal.
The new laws were passed last Wednesday, as Moms Demand Action (a branch of the New York-based organization Everytown for Gun Safety) did everything within their power to stop lawmakers in their tracks.  However, the “Moms” were no match for the ultra-powerful National Rifle Association, which was also present at the Missouri State Capitol to make certain that the new gun laws sailed through unscathed.
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Missouri resident and pro-gun enthusiast Kirk Bradley discussed his opinion regarding the new law.
“Got a 38, got a 9 mm, I got a 22 handgun, got a 9mm, and then I’ve got a 22,” Bradley said. Â He also has a trunk full of guns, and a permit to carry each of them.
“I went through that course, after that I had to get a background check,” Â said Bradley.
However, without a required permit, he worries guns will get into the wrong hands.
“They’re gonna have people carrying a firearm that shouldn’t be carrying a firearm,” Â Bradley added.
Gun shop owner and training operator Nick Newman agreed.
“It’ll probably increase our sales because I think there are some people that want to carry and for some reason didn’t wanna get a CCW permit,” Newman said, adding that he doesn’t agree with gun laws that don’t require people to be trained before they carry a gun.
“It’s kinda like driving a car, we all drive a car but we have to get a permit and understand what the rules are first, I kinda feel the same way about a CCW permit, it would be a good idea to have a basic level of instruction or go through a course first,” Â Newman said.
Despite strong push-back, the Missouri lawmakers, the NRA, and illegal gun owners all won the day.  The Senate voted 24-6 to allow the bill provisions, while the House voted 112-41 in favor.
Missouri now becomes the 9th state to allow permit-free gun carry, joining Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona, Kansas, Alabama, West Virginia, Vermont, and Maine.
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Under this new rule, you have to go through the same background process as before to buy a firearm. Plus, most counties have laws that require a permit to carry a firearm. So, the only places you will be allowed to conceal a firearm without a permit are in counties/municipalities that do not have these laws. Before putting blanket statements out, perhaps you should do some research to ensure the "news" you are reporting is true.