Missouri lawmakers fail to overcome veto of gun bill

[JURIST] The Missouri Senate [official website] on Wednesday fell one vote short of overriding a veto by Governor Jay Nixon [official profile] and passing into law a bill implementing a controversial gun measure. After the state's House of Representatives on Wednesday voted 109-49 in favor of overriding Nixon's veto, the senate's 22-12 vote failed to meet the required two-thirds majority. Nixon vetoed the bill earlier this year, arguing that it violated the Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution [text], as...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/09/missouri-lawmakers-fail-to-overcome-veto-of-gun-bill.php

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