Missouri
Missouri experiences one of the highest rates of gun deaths, gun homicides, and household firearm ownership. Missouri not only has none of the foundational gun violence prevention laws, but in 2007 the state repealed an 80-year-old permit-to-purchase law—leading to an increase in the state’s gun homicide rate of up to 27%.1Raiden Hasegawa, Daniel W. Webster, and Dylan Small, “Evaluating Missouri’s Handgun Purchaser Law: A Bracketing Method for Addressing Concerns About History Interacting with Group,” Epidemiology 30, no. 3, (May 2019): 371–79, https://doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000000989.
Only a few of the 50 top policies are in place in Missouri, and legislators have shown no momentum for passing gun safety protections, despite the fact that St. Louis is among the top US cities with the highest gun homicide rates in the country.
If Missouri had the gun death rate of our National Leaders—the 10 states with the strongest gun safety laws—we could save 10,291 lives in the next decade.1Everytown Research analysis of CDC WONDER state gun death rates and Everytown Gun Law Rankings 2026. Based on projected gun deaths, 2026–2035.
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