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Missouri Republicans advancing gun-porn legislation on behalf of the Russians, er, the National Rifle Association, have a new name for their effort.

Put them all in one big bill and call them: Not a Good Choice.

Those were the words of an intoxicated Republican Senate staffer after police responded to an incident in a Jefferson City bar in the early morning hours last week.

As first reported by the Post-Dispatch’s Kurt Erickson, Jared Brown, who is the chief of staff to Sen. Justin Brown, R-Rolla, was involved in a barroom altercation when a loaded 9 mm Ruger pistol he was carrying fell to the ground.

When police arrived at Spectators Bar and Grill, a “visibly intoxicated” Brown acknowledged that bringing the gun into the bar was “not a good choice.”

Ya think?

And yet, it seems, most Republicans in the Missouri Legislature want to make that choice easier. In a passel of bills filed this year mostly intended to inoculate members of the GOP from primary challenges on the right, lawmakers are pushing legislation that would make it easier to bring guns into bars, churches and businesses, onto college campuses, into schools, and yes, into day care centers.