Missouri House Votes To Ban “Celebratory Gunfire”

February 20, 2024 Guns, Mass Shootings

The Associated Press reports:

Missouri’s Republican-led House on Monday passed a bill to ban celebratory gunfire in cities less than a week after a deadly shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade left some attending lawmakers hiding in bathrooms. Kansas City police have said the shooting appeared to stem from a dispute between several people and not celebratory gunfire. One woman was killed and 22 people were injured. About half of the injured people were under the age of 16.

But the largely bipartisan-supported bill on celebratory gunfire represents a rare effort to regulate guns in a state with some of the most expansive laws on firearm ownership. Lawmakers shortly after voted 120-26 to make shooting a firearm within city limits a misdemeanor for the first offense, with exceptions. The measure was named after 11-year-old Blair Shanahan Lane, who was dancing with a sparkler on July 4, 2011 and was struck in the neck by a stray bullet.

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Photo above: Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher.

As you can see in the 2023 video below, last year Missouri Gov. Mike Parsons vetoed the first attempt at this bill.




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