KENNEDY, CARTER, BOYKINS (Co-sponsors) AND DOUGHTERY.
Read 1st time February 7, 2000, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
ANNE C. WALKER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 21.750, RSMo 1994, relating to firearms regulation, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 21.750, RSMo 1994, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 21.750, to read as follows:
21.750. 1. The general assembly hereby occupies and preempts the entire field of legislation touching in any way firearms, components, ammunition and supplies to the complete exclusion of any order, ordinance or regulation by any political subdivision of this state. Any existing or future orders, ordinances or regulations in this field are hereby and shall be null and void except as provided in subsection 3 of this section.
2. No county, city, town, village, municipality, or other political subdivision of this state, except any city not within a county, shall adopt any order, ordinance or regulation concerning in any way the sale, purchase, purchase delay, transfer, ownership, use, keeping, possession, bearing, transportation, licensing, permit, registration, taxation other than sales and compensating use taxes or other controls on firearms, components, ammunition, and supplies except as provided in subsection 3 of this section.
3. Nothing contained in this section shall prohibit any ordinance of any political subdivision which conforms exactly
with any of the provisions of sections 571.010 to 571.070, RSMo, with appropriate penalty provisions, or which
regulates the open carrying of firearms readily capable of lethal use or the discharge of firearms within a jurisdiction.
This section shall take effect on January 1, 1985.
Missouri House of Representatives