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Aldermen adopt ordinance updating exceptions to firearm-discharge prohibition
Summary
The Board of Aldermen voted to adopt an amendment to section 205.903 clarifying exceptions to the city's prohibition on discharging firearms to bring local code into alignment with a recent state law known in the discussion as —Blair's Law.—
The Board of Aldermen on March 6 adopted an amendment to section 205.903 of the municipal code that clarifies when a person may lawfully discharge a firearm inside city limits.
The change, explained at the Police and Municipal Courts committee meeting, was presented as a local alignment with a recent state law described in the meeting as Blair's Law, which enumerates specific exceptions to an otherwise broad prohibition on discharging a weapon within a city. Erin, identified in the meeting as a police captain, told the…
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