Gun

This video, uploaded to YouTube overnight, records a gun battle in the distance on a street in Watertown, Mass.

LEBANON, Mo. - City police are investigating an apparent accidental shooting that killed a cadet.  The Lebanon Daily Record reports Russell Bragg, 24, died on Wednesday night after being shot in the leg. Police said Bragg's friend and fellow cadet was taking apart a gun on the balcony of Bragg's apartment when he bent down to pick up something and a bullet fired.  The round traveled through the victim's leg, then into his stomach and spine area....

An Arkansas man is behind bars after officers say he pulled a gun in a restaurant. Police say James Sloan was asked to leave a resort bar in Lakeview.  Sloan paid his bill and left, but allegedly came back with a gun and started a fight with an employee. A patron was able to take the gun from Sloan. Sloan's now charged with aggravated assault and carrying a weapon.

West Plains, Mo. - A student has been suspended from classes after bringing an unloaded gun to West Plains High School. Staff and faculty at the high school got word the male student had been seen with the weapon Thursday afternoon.  When they approached him, they found he was carrying the gun in his pants pocket.   He apparently did not bring any ammunition to the school.  Lana Snodgras, a spokesperson for West Plains Schools, says the student will serve a 10-day, out-of-school suspension and can only return to class after first meeting with the superintendent of schools.

CAMDENTON, Mo. -- Formal charges were filed against an elderly man who, authorities say, shot at Camden County deputies.  John Russell, 81, walked away from a care facility in Morgan County on Saturday.  He was later found at a home near Camdenton.      Deputies say Russell was armed with a gun when a struggle ensued between him and law enforcers.  During the melee, the suspect shot off a round.       Russell faces several charges, including second-degree assault on a law enforcement officer.

Gun control takes center stage on 'Meet the Press' Sunday morning.  The CEO of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre, will sit down with David Gregory. Earlier this week, LaPierre announced the NRA's recommendation to try and stop, or limit school shootings.  LaPierre said an armed guard should be placed at schools.  LaPierre will be discussing that and other N-R-A ideas this morning.  You can watch on KY3 at 9:00 Sunday morning. Meanwhile, some school and police officials in Missouri say they'd be open to the N-R-A's idea of placing armed officer in schools.  Saint Louis County Police Chief Tim Fitch says most of the lives lost in school shootings happened before police arrive.  He says an armed guard on-site would address that critical period of time.

Ozark -- A man walked into the Ozark B&B theaters on Saturday afternoon with a gun on his hip--in plain view. Theater staff immediately called authorities around 3p.m. when the incident happened. Ozark police officers and Christian County deputies escorted the man out of the theater. After checking to make sure he did not have any outstanding warrants, officers told the man he could return without the gun, or he would have to leave the theater.      Christian County Sheriff Joey Kyle said the man didn't do anything illegal.

REPUBLIC, Mo. -- City police believe a man who fired a shot into a home because of a dispute with a woman is an illegal immigrant who is using someone else's name.   That's why Helio Avila is charged by the name of John Doe with first-degree assault, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon.  Police also believe Sunday was not the first time that Doe has fired a gun in his neighborhood. According to the probable cause statement, police went to a home at 3423 E. Haile St. on Sunday.  Witnesses said Doe argued with a woman in the driveway, then pulled out a gun and fired a shot at a man who was watching the argument from a window in the home.  Police found the bullet hole under the window, as well as a spent .380 shell next to the driveway.

JEFFESON CITY, Mo., -- A bill lowering the age requirement for a conceal-and-carry firearm permit has cleared the Missouri Legislature and is on its way to the governor. The measure lowers the age to obtain a concealed weapon permit from 23 to 21. Missouri currently has the country's oldest right to carry age. The bill would also allow more people to carry a concealed firearm inside the Missouri Capitol building. Currently, only legislators are allowed to carry guns, but the law would expand that privilege to include legislative staff members and statewide elected officials.

REEDS SPRING, Mo.-- Saturday night marks the fifth annual Guns vs. Hoses match-up in Stone County. The basketball game is between the fire department and law enforcement departments.  The "Guns" won the first three games. The "Hoses" won last year.  This is the first year both departments are under new management: Sheriff Doug Rader and Fire Chief David Gyger. The Guns-N-Hoses event was created in 2009 for two reasons.  The main reason was to raise funds for the Stone County Sheriff's Office DARE program, and the Southern Stone County Fire Protection District Honor Guard.  The DARE program exists only by the generosity of the community that donates to the program.  It has been able to operate without the use of any tax dollars.  The program is currently being taught to 5 th grade students in every school district in Stone County.  Officers believe that they must reach students at a young age to give them a chance at success in the future.  There will also be a silent auction during the night to help raise more funds.  All of the money raised is split between the Sheriff's Office and the Fire Department once all of the costs are paid.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Police are looking for two people involved in an apparent attempted robbery at a Walgreens store in east Springfield. The cashier on duty said two people wearing red bandanas entered the Walgreens at 2640 E. Sunshine St. just after 4 a.m., and one of them displayed a gun. The two asked where the manager was, but the cashier told them the manager was in the back. The two then ran out of the store without taking anything, according to the cashier. Security footage containing images of the two have been turned over to Springfield police.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Two young men are charged for a portion of a recent rash of broken car windows and business property damage across Springfield.  Ira Boyd, 19, and Randy Moore, 21, are in the Greene County jail in lieu of $50,000 bonds.  It's also likely that Moore's younger brother is charged in Juvenile Court.  The probable cause statements against Boyd and Moore say they confessed to randomly shooting out windows of cars and businesses for...

This video, uploaded to YouTube overnight, records a gun battle in the distance on a street in Watertown, Mass.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Gov. Jay Nixon said Tuesday that the Department of Revenue will no longer scan or retain certificates of qualification for Concealed Carry Weapon (CCW) permits.  The department's License Bureau offices started keeping those documents when it started using a central system of printing driver's licenses to save money.  Holders of CCW permits can have their driver's licenses show they have permits in case they're stopped and a concealed gun is found. "It has been determined that the scanning and retention of concealed carry certificates are not essential to the integrity of the license issuance process," Gov. Nixon said in a news release.   "We will continue to work with policymakers to ensure the security and privacy of our license issuance process.

Springfield, Mo. -- A Missouri man says his worst fears are confirmed with revelations that confidential information about 163,000 Missourians with conceal and carry permits was shared with the feds two different times. Eric Griffin's court case in Stoddard County is at the center of a growing guns and privacy controversy.  His court claim contends his rights were violated when he went to a southeast Missouri license bureau to finalize his conceal and carry permit.  He had already been approved by the sheriff's department and wanted to update his license, and Griffin's attorney said that's when the DMV worker requested personal documents from Griffin.  "His birth certificate, his Social Security card, a utility bill that proved his residence, his conceal carry permit itself," said Griffin's attorney Russell Oliver.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo - There are two things showing no signs of cooling off: the heated gun debate, and hot sales of guns and ammo. "We probably get 100 phone calls a day," stated Brent Ball, owner of 417 Guns.  "We got 5,000 rounds of 22 (mm) the other day. It was gone literally in two minutes.  It was crazy, it was just like a  mad house. " Gun owners are buying like there's no tomorrow- because they're not sure what tomorrow holds for their rights to bear arms. "There is so much rumor right now is the problem.  What is actually out there and what is coming it goes back and forth daily almost," said Ball.

BOLIVAR, Mo.  -- Administrators locked down schools late Monday morning after a report that someone had fired shots from a car near the intermediate school and the high school about 11:30.   Police were looking for a specific car and officers stopped a car matching that description at a parking lot east of those schools (photo), where they questioned four people in two vehicles and detained two of them. Police at the scene said the four people involved are high school-aged, and know each other.  They wouldn't confirm whether the gun was real or a fake gun, like a BB gun or an Airsoft gun.  Police said they didn't have a motive for the dispute.   A police department spokesman said officers would conduct a search on Monday afternoon to try to gain more evidence in their investigation.  They said neither car has damage from a gunshot and the reported shooting was not at a school, although one or both cars did drive through a school parking lot. The school district got the all-clear from police at noon.  Superintendent Steve Morgan says students attended classes and lunch but couldn't go outside the schools.  He said everything else was normal in the schools.  He said the situation is formally called a "Lock and Learn.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Springfield police say they are looking for a man who is believed to have robbed a downtown Springfield cafe Tuesday evening. A man walked into Pickleman's Cafe at the corner of Walnut Street and Jefferson Avenue and displayed a gun, authorities said. No one was hurt, but the man did get away with an unknown amount of cash.    

REPUBLIC, Mo. -- City police believe a man who fired a shot into a home because of a dispute with a woman is an illegal immigrant who is using someone else's name.   That's why Helio Avila is charged by the name of John Doe with first-degree assault, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon.  Police also believe Sunday was not the first time that Doe has fired a gun in his neighborhood. According to the probable cause statement, police went to a home at 3423 E. Haile St. on Sunday.  Witnesses said Doe argued with a woman in the driveway, then pulled out a gun and fired a shot at a man who was watching the argument from a window in the home.  Police found the bullet hole under the window, as well as a spent .380 shell next to the driveway.