On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Missouri’s case seeking to declare the state a gun sanctuary. The high court refused to revive a law that barred police from enforcing some federal firearm rules.
Passage in 2021 framed the statute as a 10th Amendment assertion and sought to block state or local officials from cooperating with federal agencies enforcing firearm laws. Additionally, the law contends that some gun restrictions imposed by the federal government contravene the Second Amendment.
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The law imposed $50,000 fines for officers who knowingly enforced federal laws, disrupting federal firearms prosecutions after the state crime lab refused to process evidence.
The court’s second rejection leaves former Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s petitions unanswered, although Republicans in the state began working on another version following Monday’s decision.
A federal judge wrote that the state cannot unilaterally void federal law and must accept political accountability. Meanwhile, a coalition of law enforcement officials warned the statute was “anti-law enforcement.”
