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ST. LOUIS (AP) — A judge has expunged the misdemeanor convictions of a St.
Louis couple who waved guns at racial injustice protesters outside their
mansion in 2020. Now they want their guns back.

Attorneys Mark and Patricia McCloskey filed a request in January to have
the convictions wiped away. Judge Joseph P. Whyte wrote in an order
Wednesday that the purpose of an expungement is to give people who have
rehabilitated themselves a second chance, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
reported. City prosecutors and police opposed the expungements.

Immediately after the judge's ruling, Mark McCloskey demanded that the city
return the two guns seized as part of his 2021 guilty plea to misdemeanor
assault. Republican Gov. Mike Parson pardoned the couple weeks after the
plea.

"It's time for the city to cough up my guns," he told the Post-Dispatch.

If it doesn't, he said, he'll file a lawsuit.

The McCloskeys said they felt threatened by the protesters, who were
passing their home in June 2020 on their way to demonstrate in front of the
mayor's house nearby. It was one of hundreds of demonstrations around the
country after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The couple
also said the group was trespassing on a private street.

Mark McCloskey emerged from his home with an AR-15-style rifle, and
Patricia McCloskey waved a semi-automatic pistol.

https://apnews.com/article/mark-mccloskey-record-expunged-e078710c51815fd00db9ba21b987b5ef