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                                       FIRST REGULAR SESSION
                        HOUSE BILL NO. 1575
                               103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY


                                INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE RUSH.

     3213H.01I                                                                    JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk


                                                AN ACT
     To repeal section 571.070, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to
            unlawful possession of a firearm, with penalty provisions.


     Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

             Section A. Section 571.070, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu
 2   thereof, to be known as section 571.070, to read as follows:
             571.070. 1. A person commits the offense of unlawful possession of a firearm if such
 2   person knowingly has any firearm in his or her possession and:
 3           (1) Such person has been convicted of a felony under the laws of this state, or of a
 4   crime under the laws of any state or of the United States which, if committed within this state,
 5   would be a felony; [or]
 6           (2) Such person is a fugitive from justice, is habitually in an intoxicated or drugged
 7   condition, or is currently adjudged mentally incompetent; or
 8           (3) Such person is under eighteen years of age and is on public property.
 9   However, possession under this subdivision is not an offense if such person possesses the
10   firearm:
11           (a) While accompanied by a person twenty-one years of age or older;
12           (b) For the purposes of a school-sanctioned, firearm-related event or club event;
13           (c) For the lawful pursuit of game; or
14           (d) As otherwise authorized by law.
15           2. Unlawful possession of a firearm is a class C felony, unless a person has been
16   convicted of a dangerous felony as defined in section 556.061, or the person has a prior
17   conviction for unlawful possession of a firearm in which case it is a class B felony.

     EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is
     intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.
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18        3. The provisions of subdivision (1) of subsection 1 of this section shall not apply to
19 the possession of an antique firearm.
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Statutes affected: 
Introduced (3213H.01): 571.070