Missouri AG says FBI can’t audit concealed carry permits

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Lawyer Basic Eric Schmitt stated Wednesday that FBI brokers is not going to be allowed to audit hid carry permits collected by county sheriffs in Missouri.

In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Schmitt stated he had been instructed that FBI brokers deliberate to go to a number of county sheriffs departments in August to audit hid carry weapons permits.

Schmitt, who’s a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, stated a Missouri legislation prohibits sharing the confidential lists collected by sheriff departments with federal, state or non-public entities. He additionally contended permitting federal brokers to entry the allow data would violate the Second Modification.

Schmitt stated the hid carry legislation handed when he was a state senator included the availability that solely elected county sheriffs would have entry to the allow data as a result of lawmakers “wished to go away little doubt that the residents of Missouri have a proper to bear arms, and the federal authorities has no enterprise poking round to seek out out their identities.”

FBI representatives in Kansas Metropolis, St. Louis and Washington D.C. didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.

In 2013, the Legislature handed a gun legislation that included a provision transferring duty for issuing identification playing cards for hid gun permits from driver’s license clerks to native sheriffs after revelations that state companies supplied allow data to federal staff investigating fraud.