I didnt realize that Missouri had state-sanctioned training classes for committing a crime... :banghead:
CCW is a crime. It is NOT a license, permit, or privilege.
Missouri doesn't even issue a seperate card like most states. They give you an additional endorsement on your DL.
In Missouri it would be a CCE (Concealed Carry Endorsement).
CCW means "Carrying a Concealed Weapon", and a MO CCE does NOT give you the legal ability to carry any concealed weapon--ONLY a handgun.
Please, stop using this term. It describes a crime, not a permit...
In Mo CCW is the common term for "Carry Concealed Weapon". It is the term used by the general public, to describe the legal carrying of a concealed weapon. Missouri allows either an endorsement on the DL or you can pay an additional charge and receive a card, similar to your DL.
Here's the section on unlawful use of a weapon for my state.
http://www.moga.mo.gov/statutes/C500-599/5710000030.HTM
Unlawful use of weapons--exceptions--penalties.
571.030. 1. A person commits the crime of unlawful use of weapons if he or she knowingly:
(1) Carries concealed upon or about his or her person a knife, a firearm, a blackjack or any other weapon readily capable of lethal use; or
(2) Sets a spring gun; or
(3) Discharges or shoots a firearm into a dwelling house, a railroad train, boat, aircraft, or motor vehicle as defined in section 302.010, or any building or structure used for the assembling of people; or
(4) Exhibits, in the presence of one or more persons, any weapon readily capable of lethal use in an angry or threatening manner; or
(5) Has a firearm or projectile weapon readily capable of lethal use on his or her person, while he or she is intoxicated, and handles or otherwise uses such firearm or projectile weapon in either a negligent or unlawful manner or discharges such firearm or projectile weapon unless acting in self-defense;
(6) Discharges a firearm within one hundred yards of any occupied schoolhouse, courthouse, or church building; or
(7) Discharges or shoots a firearm at a mark, at any object, or at random, on, along or across a public highway or discharges or shoots a firearm into any outbuilding; or
(8) 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 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
(9) Discharges or shoots a firearm at or from a motor vehicle, as defined in section 301.010, discharges or shoots a firearm at any person, or at any other motor vehicle, or at any building or habitable structure, unless the person was lawfully acting in self-defense; or
(10) Carries a firearm, whether loaded or unloaded, or any other weapon readily capable of lethal use into any school, onto any school bus, or onto the premises of any function or activity sponsored or sanctioned by school officials or the district school board.
Here is the exemption for CC.
4. Subdivisions (1), (8), and (10) of subsection 1 of this section shall not apply to any person who has a valid concealed carry endorsement issued pursuant to sections 571.101 to 571.121 or a valid permit or endorsement to carry concealed firearms issued by another state or political subdivision of another state.
So you see we can, in fact, carry a weapon concealed as opposed to only a firearm.
While I appreciate your point about "Carrying a Concealed Weapon", please don't feel you have the right to tell me or other members of my state what we can call a thing in our own state.
