There are certain places (sometimes called "prohibited places") where CCW permits holders are prohibited from carry concealed under the Missouri law. These are listed in abbreviated form below. Most of what's been cropped from the actual law is "without consent" language, definitions, penalty limitations, and exceptions for carry in a vehicle in parking areas. All information contained in this document is provided as an aid for understanding the location restrictions. Users of this document do so at their own risk since CCW Permit holders are required to know the law and its provisions.

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RSMO 571.107.1: "A concealed carry endorsement issued pursuant to sections 571.101 to 571.121 or a concealed carry endorsement or permit issued by another state or political subdivision of another state shall authorize the person in whose name the permit or endorsement is issued to carry concealed firearms on or about his or her person or vehicle throughout the state. No driver's license or non-driver's license containing a concealed carry endorsement issued pursuant to sections 571.101 to 571.121 or a concealed carry endorsement or permit issued by another state or political subdivision of another state shall authorize any person to carry concealed firearms into:

• Any police, sheriff, or highway patrol office or station...
  
• Within twenty-five feet of any polling place on any election day...
  
• The facility of any adult or juvenile detention or correctional institution, prison or jail..
  
• Any courthouse solely occupied by the circuit, appellate or supreme court, or any courtrooms, administrative offices, libraries or other rooms of any such court...
• Any meeting of the governing body of a unit of local government; or any meeting of the general assembly or a committee of the general assembly...
  
• The general assembly, supreme court, county or municipality may by rule, administrative regulation, or ordinance prohibit or limit the carrying of concealed firearms by endorsement holders in that portion of a building owned, leased or controlled by that unit of government...
  
• Any establishment licensed to dispense intoxicating liquor or nonintoxicating beer for consumption on the premises, which portion is primarily devoted to that purpose...
  
• Any area of an airport to which access is controlled by the inspection of persons and property...
  
• Any place where the carrying of a firearm is prohibited by federal law;
  
• Any higher education institution or elementary or secondary school facility...
  
• Any portion of a building used as a child-care facility...
  
• Any riverboat gambling operation accessible by the public...
  
• Any gated area of an amusement park...
  
• Any church or other place of religious worship...
  
• Any private property whose owner has posted the premises as being off-limits...
  
• Any sports arena or stadium with a seating capacity of five thousand or more...
  
• Any hospital accessible by the public..."