Category: Mark McCloskey

Mark McCloskey Won’t Have Guns or Money Returned, Despite Pardon, Missouri Judge Rules: Report

St. Louis lawyer Mark McCloskey will not have his guns or the fines he paid returned to him even though he had received a governor’s pardon in 2021, a Missouri judge has ruled. McCloskey and his wife, Patricia McCloskey, both personal injury lawyers, pleaded guilty in June 2021 to misdemeanor charges for assault and harassment, respectively, over an…


Mark McCloskey Won’t Have Guns or Money Returned, Despite Pardon, Missouri Judge Rules

St. Louis lawyer Mark McCloskey will not have his guns or the fines he paid returned to him even though he received a governor’s pardon in 2021, a Missouri judge has ruled. McCloskey and his wife, Patricia McCloskey, both personal injury lawyers, pleaded guilty in June 2021 to misdemeanor charges for assault and harassment, respectively, over an incident…


Mark McCloskey: ‘The Media Runs Everything’

More than two years ago, Mark McCloskey and his wife took up arms to protect their West End home in St. Louis during the George Floyd protests and riots of 2020. He knows their lives will never return to normal—in part because of the unceasing, mostly negative attention they received from the legacy media. “The…


Mark McCloskey Says He’ll ‘Go Out and Buy Another AR-15’ After Guns Are Confiscated

After he and his wife pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges, Mark McCloskey said late last week that local officials will confiscate the AR-15 that he was holding during the viral incident during Black Lives Matter (BLM) demonstrations last year. In an interview with Newsmax, McCloskey said that he wanted to keep his AR-15 so he could either…


Mark McCloskey Explains Guilty Plea: ‘By God, I Did It. That’s What the Guns Were For’

Mark and Patricia McCloskey explained why they pleaded guilty to the charges stemming from a viral incident last summer where the couple was seen holding firearms amid Black Lives Matter (BLM) demonstrations in front of their St. Louis home. The prosecutor, Mark said, “dropped all the felony charges, all the gun charges, and charged me…


Mark McCloskey, Lawyer Who Brandished His Rifle at Black Lives Matter Protesters, Floats Senate Bid

Mark McCloskey, the St. Louis lawyer who brandished his assault rifle at Black Lives Matter protesters as they marched through his neighborhood, floated a bid for Missouri’s open Senate seat. “I can confirm that it’s a consideration, yes,” McCloskey told Politico Tuesday evening, adding that he had no official timeline for announcing his decision. He…