Concealed weapons would be allowed in public buildings in Missouri under proposal | Law and order

HTTP/2 200 date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 04:58:51 GMT content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 x-loop: 1 last-modified: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 00:14:02 GMT x-ua-compatible: IE=edge link: ; rel=preconnect dns-prefetch; crossorigin link: /art/tncms/user/user.js>; rel=preload; as=script link: ; rel=preload; as=script link: ; rel=preload; as=script link: ; rel=preload; as=script link: ; rel=preload; as=script link: ; rel=preload; as=script x-tncms: 1.43.0; app16; 0.33s; 10.2M x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN x-content-type-options: nosniff x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block etag: W/6147adb715be0a6ad9240a7fd265340b vary: X-IPCountry, X-Townnews-Now-API-Version, Accept-Encoding age: 4874 cache-control: public, max-age=10 x-vcache: HIT accept-ranges: bytes content-length: 244473 Concealed weapons would be allowed in public buildings in Missouri under proposal | Law and order | stltoday.com Thanks for reading. Subscribe or log in to continue. Continue reading with a digital subscription. 99¢ for first month then $9.99 per month, or $99 for the year. Cancel your subscription at any time. You are the owner of this article. JEFFERSON CITY • Concealed weapons could be allowed on college campuses, churches, childcare facilities, polling places and private businesses if one Missouri House measure gains traction.A proposal by Rep. Jered Taylor, R-Nixa, loosens conceal carry language established in 2017 by opening up many public institutions that currently ban guns, including universities and government buildings. Private businesses, which now have to give permission to those wishing to conceal carry would instead default to allowing the weapons unless otherwise indicated.During Taylor’s third time presenting the legislation Wednesday, he said the changes would allow people to protect themselves in taxpayer-owned buildings. “The intent is to make sure that people can defend themselves in a vast variety of situations where currently they can’t,” Taylor said.The proposal ignited an overflowing Capitol hearing room with debate regarding whether allowing guns in public entities would make

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