US Appeals Court Rules Against Missouri’s ‘Second Amendment Preservation Act’

A three-judge panel ruled 3–0 in rejecting the law, which was passed by the GOP-controlled state Legislature in 2021.

AR-15 rifles are on display during the Nation's Gun Show at Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, Va., on Nov. 18, 2016. Alex Wong/Getty Images

A federal appeals court on Monday ruled in favor of the Biden administration by scrapping a Missouri state law that declared several federal gun laws invalid.

A three-judge panel of the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Missouri’s bid to reverse a lower-court judge’s decision to bar the state from enforcing a 2021 law known as the Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA).