SAPA still lives and Missouri Women Join the Hunt

Welcome to 2nd Amendment Radio & the Great Outdoors with Marc Cox & Bo Matthews – as always we are produced by Carl Middleman (Pew Pew)! We begin by thanking everyone who came out to Bo's Big Dawg Poker Bash last weekend.  Then Mo. Sen. Nick Schroer tells us what is going on with SAPA after a federal judge struck it down. The Second Amendment Preservation Act passed in 2021, & made it illegal for police to enforce federal gun laws that are not included in state statutes. It also allows people to sue police departments for up to $50,000 if they feel like an officer is violating their 2nd  Amendment rights. U.S. District Judge, Brian Wimes, ruled the legislation violates the U.S. Constitution’s supremacy over local laws & called it, “unconstitutional in its entirety.”  Finally, Emily Porter from the Mo. Dept. of Conservation to discuss the increase of women hunting (in honor of International Women's Month).Female hunters have been increasing over the past 15 years at least, according to various data sets from conservation organizations. The state is seeing women in hunting grow younger and more prevalent. While 78,000 Missouri women have firearm hunting permits, most of the increases appear to be in bow hunting.Female bow hunters increased by nearly 40 percent between 2005-2014, according to a report on the state’s  recruitment, retention and reactivation plan by the Archery Trade Association. The same report indicated a 5 percent decrease in this demographic’s age.