No more New Year’s gunfire?
By Cara | March 10, 2009
I have noticed less celebratory gunfire lately – at least in my neck of the woods. Maybe those chiding billboards have done the trick…
from Missourinet
The Senate Judiciary Committee it considering legislation that would expand the crime of unlawful use of weapons to include the discharge of a firearm into the air for celebratory purposes in an urban area.
Senator Yvonne Wilson (D-Kansas City) sponsors the bill, as she has done in a number of previous years, saying this is a common occurrence in urban areas just prior to and just after midnight on New Year’s Eve.
Wilson acknowledges that while this might not be a problem in many parts of Missouri, it is a problem in Kansas City and other urban areas. She says a state law is needed because it would bring state law enforcement officials into the mix to help local authorities deal with a situation that she finds intolerable.
The hearing ended with the committee taking no vote on the legislation.
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