In the summer of 2015, a Cincinnati gun rights activist named Jeffry Smith set out to defy the signs proclaiming "No Firearms" at the St. Louis Zoo. One temporary restraining order later, he walked through the zoo's front gates on June 13 wearing an empty holster and vowing to continue the fight in court.
On Friday, a little more than two years since that day, St. Louis Circuit Judge Joan Moriarty issued a final ruling in favor of the zoo, upgrading the temporary ban against Smith and "anyone acting in concert or participation with him" to a permanent one.…