Gun-waving St. Louis lawyer sues to reclaim guns and money – By Joel Currier (St Louis Dispatch) / Aug 5 2021
ST. LOUIS — Mark McCloskey, a Republican U.S. Senate candidate who along with his wife was pardoned this week after pointing guns at racial justice protesters last summer outside their Central West End mansion, sued Missouri Wednesday to get his guns back.
McCloskey, 64, filed a civil suit in St. Louis Circuit Court seeking the return of a Colt AR-15 rifle and Bryco .380-caliber pistol that he and his wife Patricia McCloskey, 62, agreed to surrender in June when they pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges stemming from a confrontation outside their Portland Place mansion last year.
The suit names the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office as a defendant even though an independent special prosecutor negotiated a plea agreement with the McCloskeys after St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner was disqualified from the case. The couple’s plea agreement consented to the destruction of their guns.
A spokeswoman for Gardner could not be reached.
