The law declares certain U.S. federal gun regulations invalid and gives individuals the right to sue local and state governments that enforce the measures.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to clear the way for a Missouri law designed to prevent local and state police officers from enforcing certain federal firearms restrictions.Missouri’s Republican-led legislature passed the far-reaching law in 2021, declaring certain U.S. gun regulations invalid and giving individual citizens the right to sue local and state governments that enforce the measures, which the lawmakers said infringe on their constituents’ Second Amendment rights.
The Missouri law was passed before the Supreme Court expanded Second Amendment rights in 2022 in a decision that declared a right to carry a handgun outside the home for self-defense. Next month, the justices areIn the Missouri case, a federal judge blocked the state law in March, calling it an impermissible attempt to preempt federal law and a threat to public safety.
The state’s argument to the justices echoed the successful defense of a Texas law banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. Like the Missouri gun law, the Texas law allowed enforcement by individual citizens, rather than state officials, giving them the right to sue anyone who helped a woman get an abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy.
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