{"id":68898,"date":"2021-06-11T05:51:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T10:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=68898"},"modified":"2021-06-11T05:55:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T10:55:57","slug":"68898","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=68898","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

SECOND AMENDMENT PRESERVATION ACT TO BECOME LAW SATURDAY, WITH MISSOURI GOVERNOR\u2019S SIGNATURE<\/a><\/p>\n

Legislation establishing a Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA) will be signed into law Saturday afternoon by Missouri\u2019s governor, in the Kansas City suburb of Lee\u2019s Summit. Governor Mike Parson (R) will sign SAPA Saturday at 2 at Frontier Justice.<\/p>\n

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State Rep. Jered Taylor (R-Nixa) speaks on the Missouri House floor in Jefferson City on May 11, 2021, as Rep. Don Rone (R-Portageville) looks on (file photo courtesy of Tim Bommel at House Communications)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

House Bill 85<\/a>\u00a0is sponsored by\u00a0State Rep. Jered Taylor (R-Nixa)<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0State Sen. Eric Burlison (R-Battlefield)<\/a>. They say it\u2019s about protecting Missourians and gun rights. Critics like former State Rep. Chris Kelly (D-Columbia) say the bill is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

HB 85 declares that it\u2019s the duty of the courts and law enforcement agencies to protect the rights of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms. It also declares as invalid all federal laws that infringe on the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n

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Rural Missourians packed a Missouri Capitol hearing room in January to testify for the bill.\u00a0Senator Burlison testified at that January hearing, predicting that President Biden\u2019s (D) administration would push for gun control.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cGun bans directly, magazine bans, attacks on private gun manufacturers, red flag laws and restrictions on individual citizens from buying firearms,\u201d Burlison testified in January. He emphasized that day that his bill does not try to prevent the federal government from enforcing federal gun laws in Missouri.<\/p>\n

During the January hearing, senators also heard testimony from a woman who lives in west-central Missouri\u2019s Benton County, who says she needs a gun to protect herself from drug dealers and motorcycle gangs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI live way in the country (in Benton County). I\u2019ve had meth heads down the road break into my place. I\u2019ve recently got where my life is at stake, one of the head guys down there wants to take me out to join a motorcycle gang,\u201d the woman testified this year.<\/p>\n

Senator Burlison has emphasized that all Missouri gun laws would remain in effect, under SAPA. Burlison sponsored a similar bill in 2013, when he served in the Missouri House. That bill was vetoed by then-Governor Jay Nixon (D). An override attempt that fall failed by one vote.<\/p>\n

Former State Rep. Kelly (D-Columbia), a former Boone County circuit judge, says HB 85 is unconstitutional, and that the \u201csponsors know it is unconstitutional. It has one purpose, to pander to the gun guys,\u201d Kelly says.<\/p>\n

Kelly tweeted at Missourinet Thursday evening about SAPA, writing that \u201cit makes several assertions about State power that are constitutionally wrong and silly but also without legal significance because they are just empty talk.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Missouri Senate approved SAPA in May by a 22-10 vote. The House approved it 111-42. Both chambers also approved an emergency clause in May, which means that HB 85 will take effect as soon as the governor signs it on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SECOND AMENDMENT PRESERVATION ACT TO BECOME LAW SATURDAY, WITH MISSOURI GOVERNOR\u2019S SIGNATURE Legislation establishing a Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA) will be signed into law Saturday afternoon by Missouri\u2019s governor, in the Kansas City suburb of Lee\u2019s Summit. Governor Mike Parson (R) will sign SAPA Saturday at 2 at Frontier Justice. State Rep. Jered Taylor … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68898"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68902,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68898\/revisions\/68902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}