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The Charge Against St. Louis Couple for Defending their Home On 10 December 2020, in the Missouri Circuit Court, the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit (City of St. Louis), Judge Thomas Clark, II, removed Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner from the prosecution of the criminal case against Mark McCloskey. The case before the court did not include Mark's wife, Patricia.The case caught national attention with the video evidence available. According to a St. Louis Today.com article, a motion will be filed to extend the ruling to Patricia:Defense lawyer Joel Schwartz said he’ll file a motion requesting that Stelzer adopt Clark’s ruling in Patricia...

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@ColumbiaBugle Tucker Carlson & Senator @HawleyMO Discuss Big Tech's Suppression Of The Biden Scandal Senator Hawley: "The time for talk really has passed. It's time for Congress to legislate. Take away the special immunity that these tech companies get for this censorship." Video...

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Christine Byers of KSDK in Missouri has uncovered evidence of prosecutorial misconduct by St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner's office. Kim is one of the radical prosecutors who has been elected with money from George Soros linked radical leftist “Justice & Public Safety” political action committee. Gardner has drawn national attention with her decision to prosecute a St Louis couple for defending their home against an angry mob of Black Lives Matter agitators.The document obtained by 5 On Your Side (KDSK) show pressure was applied by Gardner's office to structure the police report, so as to alter the evidence to...

@SenHawleyPressBREAKING — Sen. Josh Hawley and @SenRickScott's legislation to ban @tiktok_us on U.S. government devices has just unanimously passed the U.S. Senate! TikTok is a major security risk and has no place on government devices.

August 4, 2020: Arizona - State Primary Kansas - State Primary Michigan - State Primary Missouri - State Primary Washington - State Primary MICHIGAN polls close at 8 pm EDT KS 7 CDT MO 7 CDT . Michigan #3 leaders are : Lynn Afendoulis (R) Peter Meijer (R) Michigan 10, OPEN .... safe Republican: Doug Slocum (R) $532,505 Lisa McClain (R) raised $1,772,125 Shane Hernandez (R) Michigan #11 Eric Esshaki (R) Carmelita Greco (R) . District 13: Rashida Tlaib (D)* - SQUAD leader Brenda Jones (D) - Detroit City Council President . Missouri: I don’t see any competitive GOP primaries....

Kim Gardner, the radical St. Louis prosecutor, has asked for and obtained a warrant to seize the rifle and pistol used to defend a St. Louis couple's home, where hundreds of protesters trespassed and screamed at them on Sunday, 28 June, 2020. It appears the charge used by far-left St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, to confiscate McClosky's firearms, is Missouri statute 571.030, Unlawful use of weapons. Bold added for emphasis: *571.030. Unlawful use of weapons — exceptions — penalties. — 1. A person commits the offense of unlawful use of weapons, except as otherwise provided by sections 571.101 to...

St. Louis, MO has been the scene of violent protests over the past few weeks. In the most notorious case of violence related to the unrest, rioters murdered retired police captain David Dorn and ransacked his pawnshop. Dorn was black. His killers shot him multiple times. As “defund the police” gained traction in St. Louis and other cities, and cities all over the country lost hard-won ground to violent crime, Americans purchased firearms in record numbers. They are preparing to have to defend themselves. It was in this context, and the rising violence and abdication of public safety in St....

On 1 May, 2020, Attorney Craig Heidemann filed a lawsuit against Academy Sports, contending they contributed to the unlawful death of Aaron “Josh” Hampton, who was one of the roommates of Luis Perez. Perez is an illegal immigrant accused of murdering three people including Hampton, another “roommate” and a woman, Sabrina Starr. Starr is said to have supplied Perez with the gun, while another woman, Nyadia Burden, is accused of purchasing the ammunition for Perez. From AP via kmbc.com: The lawsuit alleges a worker at Academy Sports in Springfield should have realized the woman who bought the bullets, Nyadia Burden,...

Missouri hunters have been credited with donating over 300,000 pounds of venison to local food banks and pantries to help provide a quality protein food source to people in need. The Missouri Department of Conservation and the Conservation Federation of Missouri released a statement thanking everyone involved in the state’s “Share the Harvest” food donation program. In addition to the hunters who participated this year, over 100 meat processors participated, turning the game into tidy and ready-to-use packages of meat. The program was started by hunters in 1992 as a way to alleviate food scarcity in their local communities. “Hunters...

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On 13 December, 2019, Lyda Krewson, the Mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, signed a city ordinance purported to ban guns from St. Louis City parks. It was passed by a vote of 16-2. The bill used a novel approach to circumvent the Missouri State protections for Second Amendment rights. Bill No. 134 declared that St. Louis parks and recreation facilities are “child-care” facilities, and are, therefore, banned from allowing firearms in them. From stltoday.com: Missouri state law allows adults to carry guns in the open, so the new law reclassifies the parks and recreation facilities as child-care facilities, where guns...

A Democrat Missouri District Court judge, appointed after the lawsuit was filed, has ruled the lawsuit against the University of Missouri for violating the new Missouri Constitutional provision protecting the right to keep and bear arms, does not apply to the University. The judge claims he followed the requirements for “strict scrutiny” when he did so. On August 5, 2014, the citizens of Missouri passed a Constitutional amendment to strengthen the protection of the right to keep and bear arms in Missouri. From ballotpedia.org: That the right of every citizen to keep and bear arms, ammunition, and accessories typical to...

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- The youthful Second Amendment supporter who made national headlines has reached a plea deal with the Green County Prosecutor.  Dmitriy N. Andreychenko conducted his advocacy in a Missouri Walmart on 8 August, 2019, less than a week after a mass murder in an El Paso, Texas Walmart on 3 August, 2019.Andreychenko wore body armor, had an unloaded, slung AR-15 type rifle, and a loaded, holstered pistol. He took a shopping cart into the Walmart while videoing himself on his phone. Police arrested Dmitriy on a charge of a terrorist threat in the first degree. The prosecutor initially charged...

What is this attention whoring but making a mockery of American governance and elected office? She did this in front of her son and daughter, teaching them the same contempt for America. These know-nothings haven’t the vaguest idea of the singular greatness of America and what it was our founding fathers achieved. NEWLY ELECTED MISSOURI COUNCIL MEMBER SWORN IN ON DR. SEUSS BOOK INSTEAD OF BIBLE By Daniel Avery, Newsweek, August 21, 2019: A newly elected member of the St. Louis County Council chose to be sworn in with a Dr. Seuss book rather than a Bible. Earlier this month,...

The Green County Prosecutor in Missouri refused to charge Dmitriy Andreychenco with terrorist threat in the first degree. The charge was made in the 2nd degree. Dmitriy was open carrying in a Walmart U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- At about 4:10 p.m. on 8 August, 2019 Dmitriy Andreychenco parked in the parking lot of the Walmart Neighborhood Market in Springfield, Missouri. He took an tactical ballistic vest out of the car, put it on, and slung a AR type rifle. He walked into the store. He was open carrying and testing his Second Amendment rights, as confirmed by his wife and his...

At about 4:10 p.m. on 8 August 2019, Dmitriy Andreychenco walked into the Walmart Neighborhood Market in Springfield, Missouri. He had a slung AR-type rifle and was wearing a T-shirt and tactical vest. He obtained a shopping cart and was videoing himself on a cell phone while pushing the cart through the store. He did not threaten anyone, point the rifle at anyone, or make any threats that are known at this time.A manager at the store pulled the store alarm, causing a panic while customers evacuated the store. Dmitriy evacuated with the other customers. As he left the store,...

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, Missouri was one of 16 states that still banned the concealed carry of handguns on a college campus, as of August 2018.House Bill 575 in Missouri would change that, to allow people with concealed carry permits to carry on campus. It does this by removing “institutes of higher education” from the list of prohibited places in Missouri statute 571.107. On 8 April 2019, the Missouri House Passed HB 575, 98 to 52. On 25 April 2019, the Senate SCS  voted “Do Pass.” The bill will need to pass a full vote...

State Rep. Evans to Resign to Lead Missouri Republican Party St. Louis-area Rep. Jean Evans is resigning from office to be the next executive director of the Missouri Republican Party. State Rep. Evans to Resign to Lead Missouri Republican Party More JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis-area Rep. Jean Evans is resigning from office to be the next executive director of the Missouri Republican Party. Evans cried as she told her colleagues on the House floor that her last day as a state representative will be Tuesday. She received a standing ovation as she wiped tears from her eyes....