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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says it just wants zoning information to complete four gun store applications. Camden County, a popular vacation destination, says it won't cooperate.
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Federal judge allows Missouri ban on enforcing federal gun laws to stay in place while state appealsMissouri is appealing a federal judge’s decision striking down the Second Amendment Preservation Act, which allows citizens to file suit for up to $50,000 if they believe that police enforcement of federal gun laws violated their right to keep and bear arms.
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About six months after the Highland Park mass shooting, Illinois lawmakers advanced a bill to ban assault weapons.
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On the first day of prefiling, both state Democrat and Republican legislators proposed measures to increase school security.
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The toddler fatally shot himself in the head and is at least the 19th child to die by a gun in St. Louis this year.
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The U.S. Justice Department has sued Missouri over its "Second Amendment Preservation Act," which bars local law officials from enforcing federal gun policy and could fine them for doing so.
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Federal officials are responding to Tuesday’s mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas, the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history. Many Democrats have called for more restrictions on gun access. While Republican lawmakers have condemned the shooting, critics have quick to point out the tight relationships these lawmakers have held with the NRA.
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Administrators for St. Louis Public Schools and charter schools plan to distribute gun locks to ensure that gun owners keep their weapons out of students’ hands.
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The suit comes as the Missouri Supreme Court considers a challenge to Missouri’s Second Amendment Preservation Act from St. Louis, St. Louis County and Jackson County.
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Missouri's "Second Amendment Preservation Act," passed in 2021, allows anyone to sue a local police department if they believe their rights to firearms have been infringed. The result is local, state and federal agencies are reluctant to work with one another for fear of potential lawsuits.