COLUMBIA — Starting Tuesday, the Boone County Sheriff’s Department won’t have to process the roughly 2,000 applications it received yearly from those wanting to purchase handguns in Boone County.
Law ending local background checks for gun buyers goes into effect Tuesday
Monday, August 27, 2007 | 5:58 p.m. CDT;
updated 6:46 p.m. CDT, Sunday, July 20, 2008
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