"New Year's Celebratory Gunfire Leads to Injuries, Keeps Police on Alert in Kansas City"

In St. Louis, police were inundated with calls reporting shots fired as part of New Year's Eve celebrations, despite such celebratory gunfire being illegal in the city. Missouri allows counties and municipalities to set their own laws regarding celebratory gunfire, and a bill to criminalize the act statewide, known as Blair's Law, was vetoed by Governor Mike Parson. A National Library of Medicine study indicates that since 1985, at least 118 people in the U.S. have suffered injuries from celebratory gunfire incidents.