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Statutes > Missouri > T38 > C571 > 571_014Unlawful refusal to transfer by denying sale of a firearm to anonlicensee, crime of--violation, penalty--inapplicability, when.
571.014. 1. A person commits the crime of unlawful refusal totransfer by denying sale of a firearm to a nonlicensee, who is otherwisenot prohibited from possessing a firearm under state or federal law, solelyon the basis that the nonlicensee purchased a firearm that was later thesubject of a trace request by law enforcement.
2. Violation of subsection 1 of this section shall be a class Amisdemeanor.
3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, nofederal firearms dealer licensed under 18 U.S.C. Section 923 who engages inthe sale of firearms within this state shall fail or refuse to complete thesale of a firearm to a customer in every case in which the sale isauthorized by federal law.
4. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any individualfederal firearms license holder, his agents, or employees to the extentthey chose in their individual judgment to not complete the sale ortransfer of a firearm for articulable reasons specific to that transaction,so long as those reasons are not based on the race, gender, religion, creedof the buyer.
(L. 2008 H.B. 2034)
