By Nate Raymond

(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear Missouri’s bid to revive a Republican-backed law intended to prevent enforcement of several federal gun laws in the state.

The justices turned away Missouri’s appeal of a lower court’s decision that the state law violated language in the U.S. Constitution called the Supremacy Clause that holds that federal laws take precedence over conflicting state laws.

The law, passed by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature and signed by Republican then-Governor Mike Parson in 2021, is called the Second Amendment Preservation Act, referring to the Constitution’s provision enshrining the right “to keep and bear arms.” The law declares that certain federal gun restrictions violate the Second Amendment.

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