
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - One local municipality is looking at strengthening its gun laws with three new bills.
Webster Groves officials are moving to beef up the city's gun laws and they say they say they want to be pro-active about guns.
The city council is considering three bills that would strengthen gun laws regarding automatic weapons, access to guns by teenagers and concealed firearms in certain places.
One of three bills would ban certain types of automatic weapons. A second bill would prohibit delivery of firearms to anyone under 18 without a guardian's consent. And a third, says city attorney Neil Bruntrager would regulate the possession of guns in certain places.
"The state's statutes do allow provisions where it basically allows you to say 'look you can't have weapons in public buildings, courthouses, hospitals, bars, places like that," said Bruntrager on Total Information A.M. "What we are doing now is designed to basically say in Webster Groves we are going to enforce these rules."
Bruntrager calls them preemptive measures.
"To tell you we have gun violence in Webster Groves, we don't," said Bruntrager. "But I would've said they probably didn't in Sandy Hook and Uvalde. Again the idea is to be preemptive as best one can."
Other nearby towns, including Creve Coeur and Maryland Heights, have already passed similar regulations.