Open Carry In Missouri Legal???

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Can a town in Missouri which has open carry pass a law that says you can't?

 

[powell&hyde]

This links below may answer your question, I have some relatives that went to the local town meetings and the citizens fought hard to keep the right for open carry and they lost. This was in Maplewood and was passed last year.

http://missouriopencarry.org/faq.html

http://maplewood-brentwood.patch.com/articles/open-carry-ban-passes-with-emergency-provision

 

[xwing]

21.750.
Firearms legislation preemption by general assembly, exceptions--limitation on civil recovery against firearms or ammunitions manufacturers, when, exception.
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 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, 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, provided such ordinance complies with the provisions of section 252.243.


So, yes, they can restrict it...