A bill, filed today:
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 1968
96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLYINTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES PARKINSON (Sponsor), JONES (89), BAHR, FUNDERBURK, TILLEY, COX, SOMMER, GATSCHENBERGER, FRANKLIN AND FITZWATER (Co-sponsors).
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AN ACT
To repeal section 571.107, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to signs posting private property off-limits for concealed firearms, with penalty provisions.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
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….(15) Any private property whose owner has posted the premises as being off-limits to concealed firearms by means of one or more signs displayed in a conspicuous place of a minimum size of [
eleven] fifty-five inches by [fourteen] seventy inches with the writing thereon in letters of not less than [one inch] five inches. ….[….]
[strike through emphasis added]
Think about that for a moment. Was this bill introduced because someone with a conceal carry permit couldn’t read a posted sign?
To qualify for a conceal carry permit an individual must receive a passing score of 15 of 20 rounds hitting a B-27 silhouette target at seven yards. One of the larger sizes advertised for a B-27 target is 24 x 45 inches.
Think about that for a moment. If this bill passes the required size of a posted no conceal carry sign would be significantly larger than the target someone would have to hit seventy-five percent of the time from a distance of seven yards to qualify for a conceal carry permit.
The Show Me State is listed as having the same kind of statue that Florida has.
Is anyone in Jeff City looking to see if perhaps the language is a little too permissive?