Gun-Owning Sportsmen Under Fire From Minnesota Legislature

Let’s imagine, for a moment, a proposed new Minnesota law (HF953) that would encompass the following critical changes to how Minnesota sportsmen would be able to own guns (of all types):

• Terminate the private sale of firearms (a.k.a The so-called “Gun Show Loophole”) requiring that all future firearms sales go through an FFL Dealer.   Incidentally, residents of Minneapolis or St. Paul would have to travel outside of their respective cities to complete a gun transfer to another individual.
• Even guns transferred between family members would be subject to strict transfer rules.
• Create a central state run gun registration system recording all firearms transfers for potential civil or criminal investigations.   Upshot, state gun owners should be prepared to give the State of Minnesota an itemized list of all guns currently owned or become criminal by the act of ommittance.
• Allow all local sheriffs and police chiefs the ability to charge whatever fees they want to complete transfer background checks (separate from Federal NICS checks).   Seller and buyer would also be required to purchase a Minnesota firearms transfer permit.
• Makes any gun owner a criminal if you loan a firearm (even for hunting) to someone else for a period of more than 24–hours.   Both the gun owner and the gun borrower would be subject to arrest and subsequent felony prosecution.   The gun registration system (above) would be used to determine to whom the gun properly belongs.

Don’t these provisions sound just wonderful?   Well, guess what…the bill to become a law has an important committee meeting this Friday.   It’s important for all sportsmen (and gun owners, for that matter) to put down these efforts and not allow this nonsense to progress any further along in the process.   Click HERE for more information and the contact list of committee members who need to be contacted.

You know, this happens to be a Minnesota proposed law but it could just as well be a federal congressional legislative proposal.   Much of this comes directly from some playbook the liberal Democrats seem to be playing by these days.   We are being bombarded by proposed new legislation that promises to infringe upon our most basic of American rights.

When will the Democrats learn that infringing upon our gun owning rights has had dire consequences against their political party in the past?   How soon they forget.   Once Minnesota sportsmen take notice of what these political clowns have proposed, it will be time to take names and then take action next time at the polls.

You have to know that the Democrats realize, to some extent, they are playing with dynamite on this issue.   This past election has given far too many lawmakers (in states and at the federal level) a feeling of “empowerment” that now is the time to move their ill-conceived liberal agenda forward.   And that’s fine…if they feel they must enact new laws that criminalize the actions of otherwise law-abiding citizens, let them try.

But they better be prepared to deal with that little light at the end of the tunnel.   Right now it seems pretty innocent and non-threatening.   Yet, when that freight train known as gun owner backlash comes barreling down the track I predict it will crush those lawmakers who decided to make this an unfortunate game of chicken.   It’s time gun owners, as well as sportsmen, purge these individuals from our elected ranks.   Any elected official who willing chooses to be contrarian to our established American gun owning rights deserves to be unemployed…and they will be!   That’s my promise to them.

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