2025 Session
Last amended: 1985 session
§ 471.633 — Firearms
Plain-Language Summary
Local governments must indemnify employees for damages from job-related lawsuits.
471.633 FIREARMS.
The legislature preempts all authority of a home rule charter or statutory city including a city of the first class, county, town, municipal corporation, or other governmental subdivision, or any of their instrumentalities, to regulate firearms, ammunition, or their respective components to the complete exclusion of any order, ordinance or regulation by them except that:
(a) a governmental subdivision may regulate the discharge of firearms; and
(b) a governmental subdivision may adopt regulations identical to state law.
Local regulation inconsistent with this section is void.
History:
History: History:
1985 c 144 s 1
Practical Notes
If a city employee loses a lawsuit over job duties, the city must pay the judgment.