> The United States Supreme Court has declined to hear a case involving Missouri’s Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA), a piece of firearms legislation that bans local and state authorities from enforcing federal firearms laws without an equivalent state law and prohibits them from cooperating with federal authorities on related investigations. The measure, as written, comes with a sharp set of teeth, as it affords private parties the right to sue over violations and seek penalties of up to $50,000 against individual officers. Further, SAPA would block all Missouri agencies and law enforcement from hiring any person who has attempted to enforce those laws as a federal employee. > I can hear you thinking that you don’t see what the problem is, and that some Constitutional accountability is in order. From your lips to God’s ears, my friends, because I couldn’t agree more. However, accountability doesn’t work in both directions with a federal government that will put you in prison for the difference between a stock and a brace, or a 14.5-inch versus a 16-inch barrel, or a sound reduction device that protects your hearing.