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Thursday, May 02, 2013  In Kentucky, child shooting spotlights urban-rural gun debate when 5-year-old kills 2-year-old

Wednesday, May 01, 2013  Firearms manufacturers looking to relocate to Missouri could collect a tax credit under a bill given first-round approval by the Missouri House.

Thursday, April 18, 2013  The Missouri House has preliminarily approved sweeping measures that would expand gun rights in the state and allow certain school officials to carry concealed weapons in school buildings.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013  The vehicles would have to be locked, with all firearms kept out of sight

Tuesday, April 09, 2013  So far, South Dakota is the only state to respond with a new law allowing school personnel to carry guns into elementary and high schools

Tuesday, March 26, 2013  The Fairview district has about 600 students from preschool through eighth grade.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013  Updated with photos from sentencing: Teen who shot to death 3 students at Ohio high school gets 3 life sentences without parole

Friday, March 01, 2013 

Friday, February 22, 2013  All three are in the Maries County Jail, each on a $50,000 bond.

Friday, February 08, 2013  Family Pawn Owner Don Mayse said there is too much misinformation about guns in the national media and in Washington D.C.

Wednesday, February 06, 2013  Two women and a man armed with handguns robbed two men.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013  Teachers would also have to attend an eight-hour training on how to respond to an armed intruder inside a school.

Friday, January 25, 2013  On Friday, family and friends will gather at the church to mourn the deaths — a tragedy that just doesn't make sense to surviving family members or the church community that has watched the accused teen grow up.

Thursday, January 24, 2013  St. Louis Democrat Maria Chappelle-Nadal said she thinks parents should be required to store guns safely.

Thursday, January 24, 2013  Fontana Unified School District police purchased 14 of the Colt LE6940 rifles last fall, and they were delivered the first week of December — a week before the Connecticut school shooting.