Eighth Circuit Rejects Missouri’s Second Amendment Preservation Act
Yesterday, a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit rejected Missouri’s attempt to nullify federal gun laws with which the state disagrees. Chief Judge Colloton wrote a remarkably brief opinion for the panel in U.S. v. Missouri, joined by Judges Loken and Kelly.
Here is the opinion’s introduction:
Missouri’s Second Amendment Preservation Act classifies various federal laws regulating firearms as “infringements on the people’s right to keep and bear arms, as guaranteed by Amendment II of the Constitution of the United States and Article I, Section 23 of the Constitution of Missouri.” The Act declares that these federal laws are “invalid to this state,” “shall not be recognized by this state,” and “shall be specifically rejected by this state.”
The United States sued the State of Missouri, the governor, and the attorney general, alleging that the Act violates the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution of the United States. The district court2 denied Missouri’s motions to dismiss for lack of standing and failure to state a claim, granted the motion of the United States for summary judgment, and enjoined implementation and enforcement of t
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