On the left: what's actually killing Missourians. On the right: the cases the AG's office is actually filing — felony prosecutions of small-business owners over "no-chance" gaming machines. Same year. Same Missouri.
These aren't hypotheticals. These are AG Hanaway's own announcements and the cases her office is putting on the docket.
Briarwood One Stop (convenience store / gas station) — Brookline, Greene County
Charges
Two felony counts of first-degree promoting gambling + civil suit under the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act + permanent injunction sought
AG Hanaway held a Springfield press conference with the Greene County Prosecutor, Springfield PD, and the Highway Patrol to announce charges over 12 'no-chance' games inside the store.
Source: AGO press releaseEagle Stop (N. Providence, Columbia) + Bagnell Eagle Stop (Lake Ozark) — Boone & Miller Counties
Charges
Felony promoting gambling charges in Boone and Miller counties after an MSHP sting and raid
The AG's office and Missouri State Highway Patrol ran an undercover sting and raid, then announced felony charges against the owner of two Eagle Stop locations over 'no-chance' gaming devices.
Source: ABC 17 NewsWoody's Pub and Grub (neighborhood bar) — Ashland, Boone County
Charges
Felony promoting gambling charges filed alongside the Eagle Stop case
Charges were announced the same day as the Eagle Stop raid — a small-town Ashland bar swept up in the same MSHP / AG sting operation over 'no-chance' games.
Source: 93.9 The EagleSt. Louis and Kansas City consistently post some of the lowest homicide clearance rates in the United States. Most killers, statistically, are never charged.
Felons rearrested for shootings, carjackings, and aggravated assaults churn through the system without coordinated statewide intervention from the AG's office.
Armed carjackings remain stubbornly high in Missouri's metros and have crept into suburban and rural communities — often involving juvenile offenders.
Trafficking networks moving deadly drugs through Missouri claim more lives every year than any single 'no-chance' machine ever could.
Backlogs and under-resourced prosecutions leave vulnerable Missourians without protection across rural counties — a problem statewide leadership could actually address.
Two felony counts and a civil injunction against the managing officer of Briarwood One Stop — over 12 gaming machines.
Public ultimatums to every host store in Missouri to "unplug, shut down, and remove the devices immediately" or face the same charges.
Joint appearances with local prosecutors, police chiefs, and the Highway Patrol — staged for the gaming-machine cases, not for unsolved homicides.
Stacking civil enforcement onto the criminal counts — making the cost of defense crushing for a single-location small business.
Cases optimized for press releases and TV cameras rather than reducing the violence Missourians actually fear.
Every link below is a real story about the AG's prosecutions of small-business owners over no-chance games.
"Promoting gambling: 2 counts.
Promoting public safety: pending."