Entries Tagged Missouri

Missouri's gun laws became much looser when lawmakers overrode a veto to move toward citizens not needing a permit to carry concealed and more.

Is Chronic Waste Disease running rampant in Missouri? It could be after deer killed in 29 counties over opening weekend tested positive.

The University Missouri is backtracking after head coach Barry Odom said earlier this week his players aren’t allowed to own handguns.

The Missouri Game Commission has banned all feral hog hunting on its conservation lands, believing that shooting hogs scatters sounders and makes it tougher to eradicate the swine.

It took officers 40 minutes to help a deer trapped in a backyard pool in Kansas City escape its watery obstacle.

In an effort to help control feral hog numbers and damage, the MDC wants to ban feral hog hunting on lands managed by the conservation department.

Mountain lions, also known as pumas, panthers, catamounts and cougars, were nearly wiped out in the U.S. in the early 1900s as hunting and a shortage of prey drastically reduced their numbers. But a century later, they are starting to recolonize in the Midwest.

This marks the first time the fatal illness has appeared outside Missouri's northern containment zone.

After collecting trail-camera photos of a unique bobcat, this Missouri trapper was dead set on catching it.

A measure voters put in place makes gun-control restrictions subject to strict legal scrutiny, but adds that it shouldn't be construed to prevent laws limiting the gun rights of "convicted violent felons."

After multiple setbacks, a veto override would mark a victory in Missouri for backers of expanded gun rights.

Despite being a top priority, a dispute among Republicans ultimately derailed the attempt to void any federal law that “infringed on people's right to keep and bear arms.”

The state's free-ranging white-tailed deer population supports 12,000 jobs and generates more than $1 billion in economic activity annually in Missouri.