Both law enforcement and public safety officials are warning persons not to engage in celebratory gunfire within or into any Missouri city limits this July 4 due to its sometimes deadly consequences and enhanced criminal penalties for offenders.
Blair’s Law named for 11-year-old Blair Shanahan Lane who died here as the result of being struck by celebratory gunfire while playing in the yard during the July 4 holiday in 2011 was passed by the Missouri General Assembly last year and signed into law by then Missouri Governor Mike Parson.
It makes such gunfire a misdemeanor state criminal offense that goes on a person’s permanent criminal record, not just a city ordinance violation, and subsequent offenses are escalating felonies…