i dont know i dont live in missouri but i would think and hope so.

Great question!! Now all I need is a gun. LOL. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Gov. Matt Blunt signed legislation Tuesday allowing Missourians to fatally shoot intruders without fear of prosecution or lawsuits. The measure spells out that people are not required to retreat from an intruder and can use deadly force once the person illegally enters their home, vehicle or other dwelling, including a tent. The bill provides an absolute defense against being charged or sued for using such force. “It ensures law-abiding Missourians will not be punished when they use force to defend themselves and their family from attacks in their own home or vehicle,” Blunt said in a written statement. Under the old law, deadly force was justified only if people believed it necessary to protect themselves or others from death or serious injury. The bill generally makes an intruder’s presence justification to shoot, or use other force, knowing the intruder could be seriously injured or kill. It does not apply in some circumstances, such as when the intruder is a police officer or when the resident was committing certain felonies, including murder, robbery, kidnapping or sexual crimes. The new law takes effect Aug. 28. The bill also includes a response to the Virginia Tech slayings. It allows court records ordering people to get mental health treatment, either outpatient or in a facility, to be sent to the national system gun dealers use to complete background checks before making a sale. Previously, Missouri did not transmit mental health records to the database, adding only those with criminal convictions to the system. The measure also gets rid of a state law requiring people to obtain permits from their local sheriffs before they can get a handgun. Blunt signed the bill in Joplin and planned to promote the law in Cape Girardeau and Kirksville. http://dailyjournalonline.com/articl...d680731607.txt Now 3 states have self defense laws Missouri, Florida and Texas. This is all about taking the powers away from police officers.Police love to place you under arrest for shooting somerone even in self defense.Can you imangine State of NEW YORK or CALIFORNIA passing a self defense law? Criminals will keep on running until theres no place to hide.People are putting pressure on politicans to create Self Defense laws Such as Florida,Texas and now Missouri.These Self Defense laws are allowing we do a police offocers Job if they cant protect us.So Let em write up tickets cause its gonna be a time when the police station wont get a phone call theres a man in my house! http://houseofpolitics.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1550

Missouri Revised Statutes: http://www.moga.mo.gov/STATUTES/STATUTES.HTM Scroll down to Title XXXVIII-Crimes and Punishment and click on the link. That should bring you here: http://www.moga.mo.gov/STATUTES/STATUTES.HTM#T38 Click on Chapter 563--Defense of Justification. That should bring you here: http://www.moga.mo.gov/STATUTES/C563.HTM This should provide you with the entire body of statutory law concerning the defense of self, others, and property. In general, the law of justification is copied and pasted below: 563.026. Justification generally. 1. Unless inconsistent with other provisions of this chapter defining justifiable use of physical force, or with some other provision of law, conduct which would otherwise constitute any crime other than a class A felony or murder is justifiable and not criminal when it is necessary as an emergency measure to avoid an imminent public or private injury which is about to occur by reason of a situation occasioned or developed through no fault of the actor, and which is of such gravity that, according to ordinary standards of intelligence and morality, the desirability of avoiding the injury outweighs the desirability of avoiding the injury sought to be prevented by the statute defining the crime charged. 2. The necessity and justifiability of conduct under subsection 1 may not rest upon considerations pertaining only to the morality and advisability of the statute, either in its general application or with respect to its application to a particular class of cases arising thereunder. Whenever evidence relating to the defense of justification under this section is offered, the court shall rule as a matter of law whether the claimed facts and circumstances would, if established, constitute a justification. 3. The defense of justification under this section is an affirmative defense.

I don't think you should ever purposely shoot to kill...just shoot, and hope the person drops.