House panel votes to repeal state gun law (Minnesota - Gun permit requirement repealed)

[shadowrider]

In a show of new Republican strength at the State Capitol, a House panel Wednesday voted to repeal Minnesota’s gun permit requirement, saying it unnecessarily duplicated federal laws

By a 10 to 7 vote, the proposal would repeal a state requirement that anyone wanting to buy a handgun or semiautomatic military-style assault weapon from a federally-licensed dealer must first obtain a state permit.

The measure, which now goes before another House committee, was passed over loud protests from DFLers, gun law advocates and police officer associations. But Rep. Tony Cornish, R-Good Thunder, the panel’s chair who showed up at the meeting carrying a briefcase that featured a large sticker that said “Crime Control Not Gun Control”, promised before the 90-minute meeting began that he had the votes to pass the initiative.

http://www.startribune.com/politics/114656874.html

The more gun control advocates scream, the more we win.

[safeinOhio]

1. The more

9 year old girls and US Rep. that get shot, the more we lose.

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[one-eyed fat man]

7. Cool your jets!

All that he is proposing is that the state quit duplicating the checks. Pity some bureaucrat may lose her job doing NICS checks on a prospective buyer before he goes to the store and undergoes the exact same NICS check.

It appears that not a single nine year old girl has provably been saved because the state asking the FBI if a particular buyer is on the prohibited list has found a single person that the FBI did not also deny the sale in the store.

[safeinOhio]

8. My comment was not about the article

It was about the comment "The more gun control advocates scream, the more we win". I agree that the law means little.

[Sinistrous]

2. Why stop here?

Let's tear down the entire permitting/licensing structure - automobiles, driver's licenses, professional certifications, businesses, building standards - then we can all be HUGE winners.

Win! Win! Win! Win! Win! Win! Win! Win! Win! Win! Win! Win! Win!

Yeah team!

(p.s.: :sarcasm:)

[friendly_iconoclast]

3. OMG! Minnesota will turn into...Vermont!

There'll be blood on the tuna hot dishes, I tells ya!

[Jenoch]

5. Wow, what a helpful, constructive post

repealing this part of the law won't mean guns are being sold without background checks. The FBI will still be providing those. The way the laws are currently in Minnesota, local police and sferiff's departments have to spend a lot of their money doing the same background checks as those done by the FBI. Its not a burden in all jurisdictions but in some cases cops are kept off the streets because of the law.

[jwirr]

6. Okay. One question. Does it duplicate fed law?

[X_Digger]

9. Is this a 'permit' or a background check?

There is no federal 'permit', so not sure what the 'duplication' is.

Is this just a bad choice of terminology?

[lawodevolution]

10. Another one and meanwhile they're struggling to figure out what's the difference between a clip and

one of those things you see at the check out register in stores with pictures and articles that those damn gun people keep talking about.

[safeinOhio]

11. Ha, gun people

every buck private knows the difference between a gun and a weapon. One is for shooting and the other is for fun.
So, this forum should really be talking about one used for fun, just to be correct and act like we really know something about the subject.