Nearly 60 police chiefs back suit against Missouri gun law

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Nearly 60 Missouri police chiefs are supporting a lawsuit that raises concerns about a new state law forbidding local law enforcement from enforcing federal gun laws.

The group of chiefs belonging to either the St. Louis Area Police Chiefs Association or the Missouri Police Chiefs Association said some of the wording in the law “has inadvertently caused confusion and raised a number of questions that hinder law enforcement’s ability to defend and protect Missouri citizens,” the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

Both police associations are seeking a judge’s permission to file a friend of the court brief supporting a lawsuit that the city of Arnold filed last week in Jefferson County Circuit Court. The suit alleges that the new law is vague and confusing, hampers criminal investigations, and is contrary to state and federal law. It seeks a judge’s order that would block enforcement of some of the law’s provisions.

The two associations said in a statement that the intent was not to overturn the law but to “ensure that law enforcement return to operating and functioning as it always has.”

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