Federal Court Takes Aim At Missouri Law Protecting Against Federal Gun Laws

A federal appeals court, on Monday, took aim at a law in Missouri which had banned police agencies from enforcing federal gun laws that don’t have an equivalent state law. 

The court delivered the blow against the state’s Second Amendment Preservation Act which declared several federal gun laws as invalid and threatened state and local officials with fines up to $50,000 for voluntarily enforcing federal laws that conflicted with the state law. 

Some of the laws affected include statutes covering possession of weapons by some domestic violence offenders and weapons registration and tracking. 

The law in Missouri had been in limbo since 2023 when the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked it while the challenge made its way through the lower courts.