Show-Me Strident GOP Defense Of Youngster Open Carry Gun Rights

To be fair to ourselves above all else . . . 

We were the only local newsy outlet to call TOTAL B.S. when politicos claimed, WITHOUT ANY PROOF, that 8-Year-Old STL youngsters were stalking the streets with AR-15s.

Meanwhile . . . Here's a glimpse at legislation and a place where there MIGHT be some room for bipartisan compromise in Missouri . . .

Democratic Rep. Donna Baringer offered a floor amendment to re-insert a narrowed version of the section to prohibit unsupervised minors from carrying, on public property, handguns readily capable of discharge. The amendment, which Roberts designed to mollify his caucus’s many sportsmen and women by limiting it to armed children whose firearm is not otherwise legally allowed (those 11 or older may hunt by themselves after completing a hunter education class), failed 104-39, on a near-party line vote.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Debate over minors carrying guns has implications beyond the Missouri House * Missouri Independent

The three-term Joplin Republican served as the director of the Missouri Department of Public Safety and as Joplin's police chief, having previously led police forces in cities throughout Washington and Oregon, where he served as president of the Oregon Association of Chiefs of Police.