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Missouri’s new gun law is causing tension between the state and federal governments. The law would ban local police departments from enforcing federal gun laws.
Missouri attorney general Eric Schmitt says on Wake Up Columbia says the law’s intention was to protect Second Amendment rights.
“It’s just something that I think we need to stand up for and be unapologetic about it,” said Schmitt. “Our founders knew how important it was. There’s a reason why it was in the Bill of Rights.”
But federal officials have said that state law should not overrule federal laws, citing the Supremacy Clause in the U.S. Constitution.
More from the Associated Press:
A suburban St. Louis police chief has resigned over concerns about a new Missouri law that would ban police from enforcing federal gun rules. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Philip Dupuis, who had been the police chief of the city of O’Fallon since October 2020, cited the “poor wording” and “unintended consequences” of the high-profile bill. Dupuis said that makes officers vulnerable during “good faith, justified seizures of firearms.”
