Second Amendment

A St. Louis attorney told the Missouri Supreme Court that the Second Amendment Preservation Act was an "unintelligible statute" that has confused state law enforcement.

Missouri's "Second Amendment Preservation Act," passed in 2021, allows anyone to sue a local police department if they believe their rights to firearms have been infringed. The result is local, state and federal agencies are reluctant to work with one another for fear of potential lawsuits.

The judge ruled that the issue should be litigated by the city of St. Louis, St. Louis County and Jackson County separately.

St. Louis and St. Louis County jointly filed suit Monday asking a judge in Cole County, Missouri, to find the Second Amendment Preservation Act unconstitutional.

Tonya McCaw and Leslie Washington, leaders with Moms Demand Action's Missouri chapter, discuss their fight for gun reform in Jefferson City.

Missouri House Bill 85 leaves local police departments vulnerable to $50,000 fines if they attempt to enforce federal gun laws. St. Louis Interim Public Safety Director Dan Isom discusses the bill, which awaits Gov. Mike Parson's signature, on St. Louis on the Air.

The measure passed on party lines, with 103 Republicans voting in favor and 43 Democrats opposing the idea.

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Jan. 11, 2011 - The attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' life, the murder of six citizens and the…

The Founding Fathers were willing to be edited, it seems, but they did not want it to be easy. So they made the amending process a steep uphill climb, requiring a clear national consensus to succeed.

Many are surprised to learn that the NRA of generations past worked with the federal government to limit the traffic in guns, for example where ex-convicts or mental patients were involved.