Department of Justice sues Missouri over gun rights law

[ripcord]

Source: NPR

The Department of Justice has asked a federal judge to block a Missouri law that allows private citizens to sue law enforcement agencies and officers for $50,000 if they can show their state gun rights were infringed upon. Gov. Mike Parson signed the Second Amendment Preservation Act last year, and since then, counties, cities and dozens of Missouri police chiefs have challenged it.

The law, known as H.B. 85, invalidates in Missouri five specific federal gun law categories, such as ones prohibiting the gun ownership by some felons, confiscation orders, and registration laws.

The complaint filed in federal court in Jefferson City, Mo., on Wednesday says "the overall purpose and effect of H.B. 85 are thus to nullify federal firearm laws and to affirmatively interfere with their enforcement."

"This act impedes criminal law enforcement operations in Missouri," U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. "The United States will work to ensure that our state and local law enforcement partners are not penalized for doing their jobs to keep our communities safe."

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2022/02/17/1081379148/department-of-justice-sues-missouri-over-gun-rights-law

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It is good try but I don't think it will work, state and local jurisdictions don't have to enforce federal law, this has already been settled in court.

[Rebl2]

1. About time!

[sanatanadharma]

2. The law goes beyond refusal to enforce...

...this law is designed to impede criminal enforcement.

I question the existence of a constitutional right to impede law enforcement.
Try it next time you see a police officer enforcing a law (like selling cigarettes).

[ripcord]

5. What about pot and sanctuary city laws

Isn't their goal to impede enforcing laws they don't agree with? Garland is even using the same language used when the federal government challenged sanctuary city laws.

[sanatanadharma]

6. What legal State has citizen-bounty laws ratting out the cop who doesn't bust the cheerleader 4 pot?

What cannabis (semi)legal State has laws giving citizens the right to seek bounties by ratting-out the cop who doesn't bust some cheerleader for pot possession?

Guns? Pot? Which does society the greater harm?
It is a rhetorical question of which no one ought need feel an itch to answer.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Law enforcement thinks it a bad law too

And they have to confront its consequences.

[thatdemguy]

4. I read this the other day.

To me it seems like more of a "the state and local police wont enforce fed laws" but they will enforce local and state laws. There is nothing preventing the federal gov from enforcing federal laws.

This is right up there with pot laws, the states that allow it said we wont enforce fed laws on weed but still have their own laws they do enforce. ( mostly taxes )

[PSPS]

7. This is the same scheme being used in the new abortion banning laws