Missouri Department Of Conservation, Spring Powered Firearm, Gas Powered Firearm

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ahnlaashock

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Saturday is the beginning of Squirrel season, so i popped onto the Missouri Department of Conservation website last evening,.

Under legal methods, they had air guns listed as, Spring Powered Firearms, Gas powdered firearms and compressed air powered firearms. When I just went to the site, all of the information about squirrels and methods has been changed, but muzzleloaders are still called firearms in the regs today. Now airguns are not listed among the legal methods at all.

That site is the maybe worst on the net, so the false information may still be up there, but the page I am find today no longer mentions airguns as even being legal.

Missouri airgunners need watch close. 
 
Here is the complete Wildlife Code of Missouri from the Secretary of State website: https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/AdRules/csr/current/3csr/3c10-7.pdf

Pellet guns are legal for most game including squirrel but there are some restrictions during deer season which says rimfire .22 caliber or smaller. I don't think I would squirrel hunt at this time of year anyway with deer hunters in the woods.
 
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Thank You.

That calls them guns, not firearms. What they were showing online called them Spring powered firearms, gas powered firearms, and compressed air firearms. Not guns. In the code itself, they are identified as pellet guns, On the website they were identified as firearms.

That is the part that seems to have been removed, but they are still using Muzzleloading Firearm on the site.
 
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From the time I started hunting (back in the 50's) MDC has called BB guns, pellet guns, and muzzle loaders firearms as a means to simplify anything that fires a projectile. With the change to the deer hunting regulations to allow airguns things are slowly changing. I hope to see airguns allowed in shotgun only areas in the future as this would open up some great hunting areas for us airgunners.
 
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