Carrying A Weapon

• Carrying a concealed weapon into an area where firearms are restricted under § 571.107.
• Exhibiting a weapon capable of lethal use in an angry or threatening manner.
• Handling or firing a firearm negligently or unlawfully while intoxicated, unless in self defense.
• Firing a firearm within one hundred yards of an occupied schoolhouse, courthouse or church.
• Carrying a firearm into a place of worship, a polling place on election day, or a government building.
• Carrying a firearm into a school, onto a school bus, or onto the grounds of a school function.

• Mo. Rev. Stat. § 571.030

Those are among the acts that are unlawful use of weapons in Missouri when done knowingly. Several of them, the restricted areas, places of worship and government buildings, and schools, do not apply to someone with a valid concealed carry permit, within the limits the section sets.

• Mo. Rev. Stat. § 571.030

A county sheriff issues a concealed carry permit to a resident at least nineteen years old, or at least eighteen and serving in or honorably discharged from the armed forces, who meets the other requirements of the permit law.

• Mo. Rev. Stat. § 571.101

Exhibiting a weapon is a class E felony; carrying into a restricted area, a place of worship, a polling place or a government building is generally a class B misdemeanor.

• Mo. Rev. Stat. § 571.030