Section 78-258 (b) (11)
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(a)
A person commits the crime of unlawful use of weapons if he knowingly:
(1)
Possesses or discharges a firearm or projectile weapon while intoxicated; or
(2)
Discharges a firearm within 100 yards of any occupied school house, courthouse, or church building; or
(3)
Discharges or shoots a firearm at a mark, at any object, or at random, on, along or across a public highway or discharges or shoots a firearm into any outbuilding; or
(4)
Carries a firearm or any other weapon readily capable of lethal use into any church or place where people have assembled for worship, or into any school, or into any election precinct on any election day, or into any building owned or occupied by any agency of the federal government, state government, or political subdivision thereof.
(b)
Subdivisions (2), (3), and (4) of subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to or affect any of the following:
(1)
All state, county and municipal peace officers possessing the duty and power of arrest for violation of the general criminal laws of the state or for violation of ordinances of counties or municipalities of the state, whether such officers are within or outside their jurisdictions or on or off duty, or any person summoned by such officers to assist in making arrests or preserving the peace while actually engaged in assisting such officer;
(2)
Wardens, superintendents and keepers of prisons, penitentiaries, jails and other institutions for the detention of persons accused or convicted of crime;
(3)
Members of the armed forces or national guard while performing their official duty;
(4)
Those persons vested by article V, section 1 of the Constitution of Missouri with the judicial power of the state and those persons vested by article III of the Constitution of the United States with the judicial power of the United States, the members of the federal judiciary;
(5)
Any person whose bona fide duty is to execute process, civil or criminal;
(6)
Any federal probation officer;
(7)
Any state probation or parole officer, including supervisors and members of the board of probation and parole;
(8)
Any corporate security advisor meeting the definition and fulfilling the requirements of the regulations established by the board of police commissioners under RSMo 84.340;
(9)
Any coroner, deputy coroner, medical examiner, or assistant medical examiner;
(10)
Any person engaged in conduct permitted under Section 571.030, RSMo, as amended by HB 349, effective October 11, 2003; and
(11)
Any person possessing a firearm pursuant to a valid concealed carry endorsement issued in compliance with the provisions of Section 571.094 RSMo, as enacted by HB 349, effective October 11, 2003, or a certificate of qualification issued by a county or city sheriff as described in said law, in the event the concealed carry endorsement is not available to be issued as provided under said law; provided that the person is not engaged in conduct in violation of subsection (d) of this section, and is otherwise possessing the firearm and acting within the scope of conduct permitted by the concealed carry endorsement and the law.
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