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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
National
Jack Suntrup

St. Louis, St. Louis County sue to block Missouri law claiming to invalidate federal gun laws

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — St. Louis and St. Louis County have sued the state of Missouri over a Republican-backed law seeking to invalidate federal gun laws in the state.

In a petition filed Monday, the two jurisdictions asked the Cole County Circuit Court to block implementation and enforcement of the new law and to declare it unconstitutional.

The lawsuit represents the first legal challenge to the law proponents call the "Second Amendment Preservation Act," which asserts that federal laws deemed to violate the Second Amendment are invalid in Missouri.

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