Fulton Same—Unlawful use ordinance (§ 78-110)

(a) A person commits the offense of unlawful use of weapons if he knowingly:

(1) Possesses a firearm or projectile weapon while intoxicated; or

(2) Carries a firearm or any other weapon readily capable of lethal use into any church or place where people have assembled for worship or into any school or into any election precinct on any election day or into any building owned or occupied by any agency of the federal government, state government or political subdivision thereof or into any public assemblage of persons met for any lawful purpose.

(3) Carries a concealed firearm into a city building as follows:

a. No person who has been issued a concealed carry endorsement by the state director of revenue under RSMo § 571.094 or who has been issued a valid permit or endorsement to carry concealed firearms issued by another state or political subdivision of another state, shall, by authority of that endorsement or permit, be allowed to carry a concealed firearm or to openly carry a firearm in any building or portion of a building owned, leased or controlled by the city.

b. Signs shall be posted at each entrance of a building entirely owned, leased or controlled by the city stating that carrying of firearms is prohibited. Where the city owns, leases or controls only a portion of a building, signs shall be posted at each entrance to that portion of the building stating that carrying of firearms is prohibited.

c. This section shall not apply to buildings used for public housing by private persons, highways or rest areas, firing ranges, or private dwellings owned, leased or controlled by the city.

d. Any person violating this section may be denied entrance to the building or ordered to leave the building. Any city employee violating this section may be disciplined. No other penalty shall be imposed for a violation of this section.

e. No person who has been issued a certificate of qualification which allows the person to carry a concealed firearm before the director of revenue begins issuing concealed carry endorsements in July, 2004, shall, by authority of that certificate, be allowed to carry a concealed firearm or to openly carry a firearm in any building or portion of a building owned, leased or controlled by the city.

(b) Subsection (a)(2) of this section shall not apply to or affect any of the following:

(1) All state, county and municipal law enforcement officers possessing the duty and power of arrest for violation of the general criminal laws of the state or for violation of ordinances of counties or municipalities of the state or any person summoned by such officers to assist in making arrests or preserving the peace while actually engaged in assisting such officer.

(2) Wardens, superintendents and keepers of prisons, penitentiaries, jails and other institutions for the detention of persons accused or convicted of crime.

(3) Members of the armed forces or national guard while performing their official duty.

(4) Those persons vested by article V, section 1, of the state constitution with the judicial power of the state.

(5) Any person whose bona fide duty is to execute process, civil or criminal.

(c) Subsection (a)(4) of this section does not apply when the actor is transporting such weapons in a nonfunctioning state or in an unloaded state when ammunition is not readily accessible or when such weapons are not readily accessible.