{"id":1603369,"date":"2022-08-12T13:18:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T17:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1603369"},"modified":"2022-08-12T13:18:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T17:18:36","slug":"missouri-sheriffs-resisting-fbis-concealed-carry-weapon-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/missouri-sheriffs-resisting-fbis-concealed-carry-weapon-audit\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Sheriffs Resisting FBI\u2019s Concealed Carry Weapon Audit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmissouri-sheriffs-resisting-fbis-concealed-carry-weapon-audit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1603369&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has so far randomly audited 24 sheriff\u2019s offices in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-missouri\">Missouri<\/a> in search of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-concealed-carry\">concealed carry<\/a> weapon (CCW) details, but they all refused to comply, according to law enforcement authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone released anything pertaining to CCWs themselves, but some did partially comply by answering procedural questions on issuing CCWs,\u201d said Moniteau County\u2019s Sheriff Tony Wheatley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey answered two of those standard questions but nothing, as far as I know, was given from any sheriff pertaining to any CCW files.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/missouri-sheriff-refuses-to-hand-over-gun-owners-info-to-fbi-i-will-go-down-with-the-ship_4610381.html\">The Epoch Times<\/a>, the FBI informed several Missouri County sheriffs that they would be showing up during August for onsite reviews of CCW permits.<\/p>\n<p>Wheatley is among the sheriffs who received an email from Missouri\u2019s Attorney General Eric Schmitt\u2019s office on Aug. 9 in which he reminded law enforcement officers not to comply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re the highest ranking freely elected law enforcement of the state and it\u2019s up to us to stand up for the rights of Missouri citizens,\u201d Wheatley told the Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe federal government, they overstep some, and it\u2019s our job to put them in check and stand up for what we know is right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scotland County\u2019s Sheriff Brian Whitney is also vowing to follow Schmitt\u2019s direction in not complying with the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe received a letter by email on Aug. 8 from general counsel in the attorney general\u2019s office that advised us to not comply with any audit,\u201d Whitney said<em>.<\/em> \u201cI would be committing a crime if I complied.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So far, neither the Scotland County Sheriff\u2019s Office nor the Moniteau County Sheriff\u2019s Office have been approached by the FBI about an audit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe audits are ongoing,\u201d Wheatley added. \u201cThey could still knock on my door, but it won\u2019t do them a whole lot of good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schmitt\u2019s email this week was a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has so far randomly audited 24 sheriff\u2019s offices in Missouri in search of concealed carry weapon (CCW) details, but they all refused to comply, according to law enforcement authorities. \u201cNone released anything pertaining to CCWs themselves, but some did partially comply by answering procedural questions on issuing CCWs,\u201d said [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":844,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1603369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}