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April 5, 2019Missouri |  By: Ryan Elliot

Bill to conceal-carry on campuses & private schools passes 1st round in MO House

A bill advocating conceal carry on college and private school campuses hit the Missouri house floor this week. Republican 1st District State Representative Allen Andrews says the bill has been changed from its original state.

"The original bill would allow for guns to be carried in all these places, but the bill was changed as it was added to another bill on the floor in the form of an amendment that went on to another bill to only mandate guns be carried on college campuses and in private elementary and secondary schools.   Not public elementary and secondary schools but private.  So back home that would mean a person could carry a gun into St. Gregory's and Horace Mann."

Andrews adds that while it looks like the bill will pass to the Senate, he is against it.

"I'm not a big one on mandates.  I just don't like a lot of mandates even in places of business.  Being a small business owner myself, I don't like the thought of somebody mandating me as a business owner to allow someone to conceal-carry in my place of business."

The bill won first round approval in the Missouri House by a 98 to 42 vote.