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Yes the federal government will have resource issues enforcing federal gun laws without the help of state authorities. But where there's a will, there's a way. The federal government can temporarily bring federal officers into a State from other States.
If the federal government wants to, it can bring in a bunch of FBI and U. S. Marshalls and ATF agents from other States and set up stings or otherwise "get serious" for a limited period. Anyone caught up in that sort of short term aggressive enforcement program is going to be very unhappy with how things turn out.
The bottom line is that one can not sit back and relax thinking that since there aren't a lot of federal agents in Missouri he has nothing to worry about. The odds might be longer than if the State were also involved, but the possibility of getting caught still exists; and the stakes remain huge.
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"It is long been a principle of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than he is a musician because he owns a piano. There is no point in having a gun if you are not capable of using it skillfully." -- Jeff Cooper
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