Missouri Law Enforcement Weighs In The The New Second Amendment Preservation Law
BY Herschel Smith
3 years, 2 months ago
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) – The Second Amendment Preservation Act became law over the weekend, one day after a Cole County judge threw out a legal challenge to it.
Now, a growing number of Heartland law enforcement leaders say this new law’s actually missing the mark, by benefiting the most violent criminals and putting your communities at risk.
Signed by current Republican Governor and former sheriff Mike Parson, the new law prohibits state and local cooperation with federal officials in any actions that violate a Missourian’s right to keep and bear arms.
“Well, very early on I was actually in favor of a large part of this,” said Sikeston Department of Public Safety Chief James McMillen. “Then we got into the details of this and, of course, I was like this is going to be a problem.”
Those details led us to sit down recently with McMillen, Dexter Police Chief Hank Trout, Poplar Bluff Police Chief Danny Whiteley, Butler County Prosecuting Attorney Kacey Proctor, Butler County Sheriff Mark Dobbs, Stoddard County Prosecuting Attorney Russ Oliver and Cape Girardeau Police Chief Wes Blair.
They are all do something even they did not expect, speak out against the Second Amendment Preservation Act.
“When I first read the legislation, I was concerned because it essentially says that we can’t cooperate with the federal government on anything that involves a gun,” Chief Blair said.
One of Blair’s officers showed us an AR-15 and a pistol Cape Girardeau police found on Gene Wren when they arrested him in November 2020.
Wren is now serving eight years in federal prison in a case worked by an officer Blair assigned to the ATF Task Force in 2017.
“And during that time, he was able to get 181 federal indictments on federal gun charges. Most of those would be felons in possession of guns.”
“I think that the average citizen thinks the federal agencies are kind of very far away and distant from us,” said Kacey Proctor. “The reality is I communicate with my counterpart in the federal system probably four or five times a week.”
Since I believe in neither your war on guns nor your war on drugs, this is a good thing, and cooperation with federal law enforcement is not.
I think the new law is working just about right.
On September 2, 2021 at 8:11 am, Fred said:
“communities at risk” is commie blather speak. There’s no reason to read beyond that phrase other than to collect Intel against the sources.