KANSAS CITY, Mo. – What should be a happy New Year’s Eve holiday comes with an appeal from police for safety. Kansas City police officers are reminding the public about the dangers of celebratory gunfire. The reckless practice of firing a gun into the air to celebrate has proven to be deadly at times. Street racing leads to deadly crash in south Kansas City New Year’s Eve is the first party-driven holiday since celebratory gunfire became unlawful in Missouri. Police officers across the Kansas City metro will have their eyes and ears open in case parties get out of control. In August, Show-Me-State lawmakers signed Blair’s Law into effect, making it a more serious offense with stronger penalties for violators. Its passage comes as welcome news to the mother of a young victim of someone else’s dangerous move during a party. 11-year-old Blair Shanahan Lane’s memory is alive for her loved ones in Cass County. She’d be almost 25 years old if not for her untimely death in 2011. “(Celebratory gunfire) is just not something you do,” Michele Shanahan DeMoss, Blair’s mother, said on Tuesday. DeMoss approaches New Year’s Eve 2024 with optimism. She celebrated on Aug. 28, when Missouri Governor Mike Parson signed Blair’s Law into effect, making it unlawful in Missouri to fire a gun into the air. Blair’s family had worked for roughly a decade to make that happen. Lane was killed on July 4, 2011, when she was hit by random gunfire stemming from a nearby party. Aaron Sullivan, 50, was later convicted for the crime. He served three years behind bars for the offense.“I hope anybody who's at a party realizes how stupid it is for somebody to have a gun. If you're having a party and there's alcohol, a gun shouldn't be there anyway,” DeMoss said on Tuesday. But Blair’s family, as well as metro police departments, are aware it will likely happen on New Year’s Eve. It did on January 1st, 2022, when Brandon Keith recorded action from his balcony at a Northland apartment complex. Numerous gunshots can be heard in his video clip. Keith said those shots came from partiers outside his home.“I started hearing gunshots right after 12. Rapid fire gunshots, non-stop,” Keith said. New Year’s Eve in Kansas City: 12 events to ring in 2025 Keith called the police, and waited, amid worries one of those falling shells would hurt someone, or perhaps pierce his home’s walls or roof and kill him. “When you watch the news, and you hear of homicides or property damage, and all this stuff. There's no need for it,” Keith told FOX4.