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Transcript: Interview: Jeanie Kirkton and Chris Cox discuss Missouri's laws on carrying a concealed weapon
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- Tavis Smiley (NPR)
- Article date:
- September 16, 2003
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Interview: Jeanie Kirkton and Chris Cox discuss Missouri's laws on
carrying a concealed weapon
Host: TAVIS SMILEY
Time: 9:00-10:00 AM
TAVIS SMILEY, host:
Carrying a concealed weapon is legal almost everywhere in this country
under certain conditions. You must have a valid permit issued by
law enforcement. You have to pass a background check. But the restrictions
are not uniform. As such, it is much easier then to obtain and carry
a concealed weapon in some states than it is in others. And now for
the first time in more than a century, and after a dozen years, a
contentious debate in Missouri has become the latest state to legalize
this controversial ...