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Highway Patrol Considers Changes to Gun Policy

St. Louis Public Radio
Published Sept. 18, 2003 at 9:51 a.m. CDT

By AP/KWMU

Jefferson City, MO – The Missouri State Highway Patrol is considering changing its policy of trading in used guns for re-sale. That comes after Governor Bob Holden raised concerns after a fatal shooting at a factory in Jefferson City in July. A resold highway patrol gun was used.

A man killed three co-workers and injured five others at a Jefferson City factory. Jonathon Russell committed suicide after the shooting spree in July.

Starting last November, the patrol traded about 14-hundred guns through a suburban Kansas City wholesaler for about the same number of newer guns.

One of the used pistols, stamped with the patrol's emblem and the initials "MSHP," was re-sold in June by Bob's Guns and Knives in Jefferson City. The buyer was Russell.

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