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Resource Page SAPA bills filed for 2021 session: HB 85 SB 39 -: 06/10/2021 UPDATE Frontier Justice Parson also announced that he will be streaming the signing live on his Facebook page. Sponsors Rep. Jered Tayor and Sen. Eric Burlison deserve a lot of credit for holding the line and keeping MO SAPA strong. Drop them a thank you email.
04/29/2021 UPDATE
04/08/2021 UPDATE April 8, 2021
03/18/2021 UPDATE HB 85 blasted through the House of Representative this year, largely due to the groundwork Missouri patriots did both last year and this year securing co-sponsors. It was one of the first 4 bills passed by the House and was reported the Senate by February 8th. It sat in the Senate, along with virtually all the other House bills that have passed since then, waiting for committee assignments. Finally on March 11, the day before the legislature went on Spring Break, HB 85 was assigned to the General Laws Committee. Why did it take so long? First, understand that there are roughly 2000 bills filed each year, about 1500 in the House and another 500 in the Senate. There is intense competition for time in committees and on the floor of the House and Senate. The House and Senate can be "territorial" with their bills, and the leaders of each chamber want to make sure their members (who elected them to those positions) have a crack at the process. Accordingly, Senate leadership did not start committee assignments for bills that had already passed the House and were waiting for hearings in the Senate, including HB 85, until after all the Senate bills had been assigned to committees. The main thing to understand is that it is still early in the session and we have made great progress. WHAT'S NEXT? HB 85 was assigned to the General Laws Committee, where the senate version, SB 39, was given top billing and promptly voted "do pass" earlier this year. It will have its own hearing in the next week or two. Currently, the next hearing is scheduled for March 23, but the schedule was already full before HB 85 was referred, and it's unclear whether an opening can be made. Watch the hearing schedule here: https://www.senate.mo.gov/hearingsschedule/hrings.htm Once HB 85 has a hearing we are confident that the committee will promptly vote "do pass" and then it will be up to the president pro tem of the Senate, Dave Shatz, to accept the bill from the General Laws Committee and place it on the calendar for the full Senate to consider. Then, it's up to the majority floor leader of the Senate to call it from the calendar to the floor. None of that will happen unless enough senators want the bill to pass, and frankly, the Missouri Sheriffs' Association has some of them running cool on SAPA. MSA has not been very cooperative in the efforts to resolve issues they have with the bill. Fortunately, a number of individual constitution-supporting sheriffs and LEOs HAVE been cooperative, and they have helped to identify areas in SAPA that can be modified to optimize their day to day law enforcement work without diminishing the power of SAPA to protect your rights. A new Senate Committee Substitute that includes these tweaks has been drafted and will soon be made available to the public. In the mean time, stay tuned. The next step will be a full court press on the Senate to pass HB 85, as amended by the General Laws committee.
County SAPA "ordinances": Yes and no. What they've passed are not actually legally binding ordinances. And while it might seem like they are supporting the 2nd Amendment, the fake ordinance actually give some people political cover for opposing HB 85 and SB 39, which ACTUALLY DO protect your rights... Note that both the so-called ordinances have an exception that lets the sheriff and his deputies help federal officials violate your right to bear arms. Read the Newton County "ordinance" HERE. Note that (3)(a) says. "(a) There will be an exception made for Newton County Missouri local deputies and sheriffs, they shall and will not be held liable to this ordinance when assisting any and all federal agents in the arrests of suspected criminals;" Real protection can only come from a statewide SAPA, like HB 85 or SB 39. Get your county to adopt THIS RESOLUTION in support of the full strength HB 85 and SB 39, and let's make Missouri a gun rights sanctuary state!
02/04/2021 UPDATE: The Senate version, SB 39, will likely be held in reserve while HB 85 waits for a hearing opportunity in the Senate. It will have to have a hearing, be voted on in committee, and then go before the whole Senate where it could get amended and either voted up or down..
01/28/2021 UPDATE: Both the House and Senate versions have passed the first legislative hurdle. These bills are moving
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Other states are filing MO SAPA bills!
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The Anti Commandeering Doctrine How SAPA is like the personal liberty laws in Massachusetts of 1855. An analogy that explains the Supremacy Clause Learn about Supremacy Clause immunity federal officials enjoy from state laws: Idaho v. Horiuchi SAPA protects LEOs, like this sheriff who refuses to enforce unconstitutional gun control law. The Tenth Amendment Center Supports SAPA. Former Rep. Paul Curtman's speech at the 2013 SAPA veto override rally. It's good!
One sheet Executive Summary of SAPA. Print and
distribute! Print the PDF version of this poster. Ask your local gun stores to display it. Tape a copy inside your car or truck window! The Main Responsibility of Government Officials The Ratification Clause of the U.S. Constitution Hamilton on the Supremacy Clause
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HISTORY: SAPA Bills Status from 2020. End of 2020 Session UPDATE - This is what happened to SAPA in 2020. We need to learn from it and prevent the same problems in 2021. 1) The Covid 19 virus scare. 2) The Missouri Sheriff's Association, which has leadership that seems to put other things ahead of defending your constitutional rights, and members who seem to be too timid to confront them. 3) The chairman of the Senate Public Safety Committee, Doug Libla, who wants to be known as pro-2nd Amendment, but held up the bill at every opportunity and did not deal equitably with the interested parties, just like he did in 2019. Libla is termed out, so he will not be back in 2021. 4) The chairman of the House Rules Committee, Rocky Miller, who co-sponsored SAPA and then was THE person that kept it from going to the whole House for debate. These people should be remembered as you consider what a President Biden term will bring to the gun rights fight. You don't have to guess what Biden and company have planned, it's all laid out here: https://joebiden.com/gunsafety/ 03/13/2020 UPDATE The House version of SAPA reached a major milestone when the General Laws Committee voted "do pass" this week. After a simple techincal vote in the Rules committee in the coming days it will proceed to the Calendar for consideration by the whole House. There are already enough reps co-sponsoring HB 1637 to pass it! 86 co-sponsors for HB 1637 as of March 10! To understand just how monumental this is you have to realize that there are 163 member of the House, so it takes 82 to pass a bill. That means we already have enough votes to pass SAPA, even before going to the floor for debate. To our knowledge, no other bill has ever had this many co-sponsors! SB 588 - SAPA 3/12/2020 No action is needed on this bill at this time. HISTORY: SAPA Bills Status from 2019.
Senator Eric Burlison: SB 367 Rep. Jered Taylor: HB 1039 List of 2019 co-sponsors: Rep. Jeff Pogue: HB 786
2013 and 2014 Missouri SAPA History (Passed and vetoed in 2013 and almost passed in 2014.) About SAPA The Missouri Second Amendment Preservation Act is designed to fight the federal threat to the right to bear arms and is based on two facts: 1) The federal government can not accomplish wholesale gun control without assistance from the states. 2) The states have every right to refuse to cooperate, assist or contribute state resources to enforcing federal laws and other actions. MO SAPA makes it against Missouri law for ANY public official to participate, in any way, the enforcement of federal gun control laws. MO SAPA includes strong enforcement provisions that don't rely on any government official.
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Print the PDF version of this poster. Ask your local gun stores to display it. Tape a copy inside your car or truck window! One sheet Executive Summary of SAPA. Print and
distribute! The Main Responsibility of Government Officials The Ratification Clause of the U.S. Constitution The Supremacy Clause Hamilton on the Supremacy Clause
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