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South Carolina would provide free gun training and allow anyone who can legally own a gun to carry their weapon in public under a bill that passed the state Senate on Thursday. The training was a compromise that finally brought two weeks of debate to an end, convincing a handful of Republicans reluctant to allow open carrying of guns without encouraging the class currently needed to get a concealed weapons permit — a position that also worried a number of law enforcement leaders. The bill was approved on a 28-15 vote.

The St. Louis Board of Aldermen took a big step Friday in a push for new gun laws, formally passing a bill that would prohibit the open carrying of weapons within the City of St. Louis.

It started with a Feb. 5 fight among about 20 people in Five Points. It ended with the arrests of two men on weapons charges after the discovery of two loaded rifles in the bushes nearby, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said. Witnesses said they were brazenly walking down the street with rifles in plain sight. The two men were arrested early Feb. 6, before they could return to the scene of the fight in the 1000 block of Park Street with the weapons — and before it "could have been national news," Sheriff's Office Director Mike Bruno said. "They didn't like the way the fight turned ou...