Ahead of the November 8 midterms, FRANCE 24 takes you on a tour down the Mississippi River with a series of reports by Fanny Allard. The third of five episodes brings us to Missouri, which has some of the weakest gun laws and one of the highest gun violence rates in the US.
Missouri has the fifth highest rate of gun deaths in the country and some of the laxest gun laws. The state doesn’t have a minimum age to purchase a firearm and anyone who can legally own a gun can openly carry it without a permit.
