{"id":72151,"date":"2021-09-16T12:42:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T17:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=72151"},"modified":"2021-09-16T12:42:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T17:42:09","slug":"72151","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=72151","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Sheriff Arnott’s example is bogus. Missouri Law<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (as well as Federal) makes\u00a0 firearm possession by convicted felons a felony. Of course – knowing him since he was a patrol deputy – his intellect never did impress me.<\/p>\n

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Springfield law enforcement weighs in on impact of \u2018Second Amendment Preservation Act\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) – Greene County Sheriff Jim Arnott has been vocal throughout his 20 years with the department. He is pro-Second Amendment rights. It\u2019s why when the Second Amendment Preservation Act was first introduced he thought it was a good thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cBasically the way the bill was designed or the intent of it. I totally agree with,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

The intent is to protect Second Amendment rights for gun owners by stopping local law enforcement from enforcing federal gun laws.<\/p>\n

Some local agencies say this law will prevent them from doing their jobs. Sheriff Arnott doesn\u2019t see it quite that way, but he does see it has changed the way they work.<\/p>\n

He gives the example:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe stop somebody on a vehicle stop,\u201d said Sheriff Arnott. \u201cThey have a hunting rifle in the back, you run the numbers and it\u2019s not stolen. But that\u2019s because [the person] just burglarized a house and they\u2019re a convicted felon but the case hasn\u2019t been reported yet. Nine times out of ten we would seize the weapon in the past. If things don\u2019t add up like he doesn\u2019t know where he got the gun, we [usually] would want to seize that gun but now we\u2019ll send it down the road. Now we\u2019ve probably let a stolen gun go down the road.\u201d<\/p>\n

And he says that can mean consequences.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe may not recover as many stolen guns,\u201d said Sheriff Arnott. \u201cSomebody may get killed because, again, it was used in crime that night that we would have had on a car stop earlier. But that\u2019s how the new statue that\u2019s how we\u2019ll operate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Republican Senator Eric Burlison sponsored the bill. He says it is designed for law-abiding citizens and has a loud and clear message to the Biden Administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a way of reminding the president, that this is the proper role of government, is that these laws are to be handled by the state and not by the federal government,\u201d State Senator Burlison says.<\/p>\n

And he says the federal government will of course be able to enforce its own rules and regulations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people that we pay, and that we tax, our tax dollars are going towards, we want to make sure that they\u2019re following the laws that we are passing in this state,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

Springfield Police Chief Paul Williams says day to day, this won\u2019t have an impact on the way officers work.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think the street officer worries or cares about this whatsoever,\u201d Chief Williams says. \u201cAnd I\u2019ve tried to make that clear that this is a very limited potential where it would affect them.\u201d<\/p>\n

But he says he has seen the criticism.<\/p>\n

\u201cLegislators I\u2019ve talked to say this is preemptive. What if something happens? What if the federal government says start registering and tracking firearms? What if the federal government says we want you to go out and confiscate guns from people? We\u2019re not going to do that,\u201d Chief Williams says. \u201cThis helps provide that protection. I\u2019ll say I\u2019ve seen some comments from even some of my peers across the state, who I know haven\u2019t read it completely and totally, to see how it\u2019s gonna affect us and how it\u2019s not,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

Both Sheriff Arnott and Chief Williams agree there are parts that will likely see change. Some they call \u201cgrey areas\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a couple of things in that law that is probably going to have to go to court for the court to decide what is constitutional and what is not,\u201d Sheriff Arnott says.<\/p>\n

Chief Williams can see some tweaks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m anticipating the legislature will hopefully come back this next session and clear some of that ambiguity up, clarify some things, and make some adjustments to any negative consequences to the public or the police.\u201d<\/p>\n

But both say, for now, they will follow the rules, enforce the law, and their focus remains the same keeping citizens safe in our community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sheriff Arnott’s example is bogus. Missouri Law (as well as Federal) makes\u00a0 firearm possession by convicted felons a felony. Of course – knowing him since he was a patrol deputy – his intellect never did impress me. Springfield law enforcement weighs in on impact of \u2018Second Amendment Preservation Act\u2019 SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) – Greene County … 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":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72151","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=72151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72152,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72151\/revisions\/72152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}