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Arrest of a Boogaloo supporter with guns in Missouri [1]

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Date: 2023-02-07  

Someone with ties to the Boogaloo movement was arrested by federal agents in Springfield, Missouri on being a felon in possession of a firearm.

The story is in Springfield-Ledger. Here is the first paragraph.

Federal law enforcement officers say they seized 11 guns, a silencer, more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition, body armor plates and several pounds of a binary explosive from a Springfield man with ties to the Boogaloo extremist anti-government group.

I recognize there is nothing new that a right-wing extremist is arrested possessing a lot of guns and explosive.

However, this is Missouri so the phrase “Federal law enforcement officers” is key. The only law enforcement agencies mentioned in the entire newspaper report are federal agents and the indictment was brought in FEDERAL court. There is a reason.

In Missouri, local law enforcement agencies, under penalty of being fined, can't help in enforcing federal guns laws.

[I]n Missouri, a state with some of the most lax gun laws in the nation, and a virtual statewide ban on enforcing any federal gun laws. The ban comes in the form of the Second Amendment Preservation Act [SAPA] – a law designed to invalidate any federal regulation of guns or ammunition in the state. The act, which Gov. Parson signed at a gun shop in June of 2021, states that any gun law that violates a citizen’s Second Amendment rights, by Missouri’s standards, cannot be enforced, essentially invalidating federal authority to regulate guns.

I’m not a reporter and I don’t live in Springfield, but in Kansas City, Missouri (where the Chiefs play).

I would love to know if there was NO communication between the feds and local authorities about this case. Did the feds tell local agencies what they planned to do? Did the feds tell the local agencies about the arrest? If there was any communication, did it violate the “Second Amendment Preservation Act”?

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