New Mo. law declaring federal gun laws invalid

[kadee79]

At some point, this is going to get really nasty!

Missouri officials pushed back Thursday at the U.S. Justice Department’s challenge to the constitutionality of a new state statute prohibiting local police from enforcing a variety of federal gun laws.

The department wrote Wednesday to Gov. Mike Parson and Attorney General Eric Schmitt warning that the measure “conflicts with federal firearms laws and regulation” and threatens the federal government’s working relationship with local police, the Associated Press reported.

In response, Schmitt, a Republican running for the U.S. Senate in 2022, and Parson accused the Biden administration of trying to “tell Missourians how to live our lives.”

“Missouri is not attempting to nullify federal law,” Schmitt and Parson wrote Thursday to Brian Boynton, acting assistant attorney general. “Instead, Missouri is defending its people from federal government overreach by prohibiting state and local law enforcement agencies from being used by the federal government to infringe [on] Missourians’ right to keep and bear arms.”

A spokeswoman for the Department of Justice declined to comment.

news.yahoo.com/missouri-ag-eric-schmitt-defends-201947588.html

[Opti]

Good luck with that Missouri. Federal law supercedes state law unless its something that is usually a state law thing. If they weren't painfully stupid and trying to prove a point, they would just get it in the grapevine to not to enforce said laws. Feds may still get complaints and act, but it would take longer.

[Opti]

“Missouri is not attempting to nullify federal law,” Schmitt and Parson wrote Thursday to Brian Boynton, acting assistant attorney general. “Instead, Missouri is defending its people from federal government overreach by prohibiting state and local law enforcement agencies from being used by the federal government to infringe [on] Missourians’ right to keep and bear arms.”

Conservative speak, i.e. propaganda at its finest.

[kadee79]

From the quote in the OP...

“Missouri is not attempting to nullify federal law,” Schmitt and Parson wrote Thursday to Brian Boynton, acting assistant attorney general. “Instead, Missouri is defending its people from federal government overreach by prohibiting state and local law enforcement agencies from being used by the federal government to infringe [on] Missourians’ right to keep and bear arms.”[/B]

[djAdvocate]

Jun 17, 2021 21:24:21 GMT -5 Opti said:

“Missouri is not attempting to nullify federal law,” Schmitt and Parson wrote Thursday to Brian Boynton, acting assistant attorney general. “Instead, Missouri is defending its people from federal government overreach by prohibiting state and local law enforcement agencies from being used by the federal government to infringe [on] Missourians’ right to keep and bear arms.”

Conservative speak, i.e. propaganda at its finest.

actually, they are at least half right here.

the second amendment is indeed there to protect against federal overreach.

but the overreach is the opposite of what Missouri says.

the overreach is having standing armies, tanks, airplanes, ships, etc.

and in the case of MO, they should be training people to use those weapons,

soas to make the need for a federal military go away.

so, they are screwing that up, too.

[Opti]

Jun 17, 2021 23:06:29 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

Jun 17, 2021 21:24:21 GMT -5 Opti said:

“Missouri is not attempting to nullify federal law,” Schmitt and Parson wrote Thursday to Brian Boynton, acting assistant attorney general. “Instead, Missouri is defending its people from federal government overreach by prohibiting state and local law enforcement agencies from being used by the federal government to infringe [on] Missourians’ right to keep and bear arms.”

Conservative speak, i.e. propaganda at its finest.

actually, they are at least half right here.

the second amendment is indeed there to protect against federal overreach.

but the overreach is the opposite of what Missouri says.

the overreach is having standing armies, tanks, airplanes, ships, etc.

and in the case of MO, they should be training people to use those weapons,

soas to make the need for a federal military go away.

so, they are screwing that up, too.

I agree the second amendment was designed to counter potential federal govt overreach, but we both know they weren't going there, so I'm going with not right at all, but using some nice buzzwords to sound almost right. MO. I think we should lessen any standing military we have, and perhaps should go to a more other country model where many younger citizens are required to do a certain length of military service, thereby learning how to operate those weapons. I really would like us to right size our military with most of the world. For the insecure we can stay a little larger than average, but I am sick of coddling their fears.

And I wonder how many of those folks on the side of this law, would feel if suddenly there were no laws whatsoever to govern car ownership. Would they really feel free, or would they be at all concerned that the person behind the wheel might have no clue as to what they are doing?

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

Everyone thinks they are John Wick with a gun when in reality the majority are Barney Pfife.

[bookkeeper]

As a lifelong gun owner and farm kid that was raised with the loaded gun next to the front door, I feel you are correct.

[bookkeeper]

So many Dicks and so few Richards.