{"id":109155,"date":"2025-04-11T16:53:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T21:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=109155"},"modified":"2025-04-11T16:53:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T21:53:22","slug":"109155","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=109155","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Missouri House lawmakers vote to allow guns on public transit and lower concealed carry age<\/a><\/p>\n

A bill passed by the Missouri House Thursday would make it legal to bring guns on public transportation and lower the minimum age for a concealed carry permit.<\/p>\n

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House Bill 328<\/u><\/a>\u00a0passed the House 106-45. It now goes to the Senate.<\/p>\n

Currently, it’s illegal to bring guns on public transit even with a concealed carry permit. Supporters of the bill say it would allow passengers to protect themselves and safeguard Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n

“It’s about time that we allow those people who use public transportation to exercise the same rights as everyone else in our state,” said bill sponsor Tim Taylor, R-Bunceton.<\/p>\n

However, opponents say that the bill would only endanger passengers, not make them safer.<\/p>\n

“More access to guns does nothing to improve public safety,” said Rep. Yolanda Young, D-Kansas City. “More access to guns doesn’t decrease gun deaths. It does the opposite.”<\/p>\n

The bill would also lower the minimum age to acquire a concealed carry permit from 19 to 18. Currently, 18-year-olds can only get permits if they are members of the military.<\/p>\n

“That means high school kids could legally carry concealed weapons,” said House Minority Leader Ashley Aune, D-Kansas City. “What could go wrong with that?”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Missouri House lawmakers vote to allow guns on public transit and lower concealed carry age A bill passed by the Missouri House Thursday would make it legal to bring guns on public transportation and lower the minimum age for a concealed carry permit. House Bill 328\u00a0passed the House 106-45. It now goes to the Senate. … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109156,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109155\/revisions\/109156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}