Northern Minnesota is beautiful country, great fishing and hunting, The Lake of the Woods is incredible. The metro Minneapolis/ St. Paul area is a disaster, the legislature is making the rural folks pay for the shit-show in the Twin Cities. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////// What you need to know about Minnesota's new law expanding gun background checks The law means that friends and family can't hand over their firearms to someone for a weekend hunting trip. They can, however, loan them within hunting hours if they are together. Anyone who wants to buy a pistol or semiautomatic military-style assault weapon must first apply for a permit to purchase or carry the weapon. Disqualifying factors include those who are prohibited from possessing such a weapon, are a danger to themselves or the public or are listed in the criminal gang investigative database. The law also adds a new requirement for private transfers of firearms. Both the owner transferring the gun and the recipient must fill out a record of transfer about the gun and themselves. Police chiefs and county sheriffs now have 30 days, instead of the previous seven, to process the transfer requests, Doar said. The chiefs and sheriffs also make the determination about danger to self or others. He noted that loaning a firearm to a friend while on a hunting trip together does not require a legal transfer. New machine gun rules Another provision taking effect Aug. 1 increases the penalty for owning, possessing or operating a machine gun, trigger activator or machine gun conversion kit. The penalty climbs from five to 20 years. The possible fine goes from $10,000 to $35,000. The penalty for possession or ownership of a short-barreled shotgun remains at up to five years, $10,000 or both. The law defines machine gun as any firearm designed to discharge, or capable of discharging automatically, more than once by a single trigger pull. A trigger activator is a removable manual or power-driven trigger device designed to increase the rate of fire or allow a semiautomatic firearm to shoot more than one shot with a single trigger pull. 'Red flag' law effective in January This new law, which doesn't kick in until Jan. 1, creates extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs), also known as red flag gun confiscation orders, enabling individuals, including family and law enforcement, to petition for an ERPO against someone with a firearm they believe is a danger to themselves or others. The law details two types of orders: temporary ex parte orders, issued without a hearing based on imminent risk, and final orders, which are issued after a hearing and can last up to a year. Gun control advocates pushed for the change to make it easier for law enforcement and concerned family members to temporarily remove firearms from people in crisis.
You can count on your local 2nd Amendment Group to file suite in your local Federal Disrict Court for violation of the Hellar, McDonald and Bruen SCOTUS Precedents and get a preliminary Injunction on the grounds that they will likely win on the merits of the case…
So glad I moved from MN 25ish years ago and that I already have my fathers firearms. Yes it will be challenged and waste much of the tax payers money.
This sounds like the Illinois FOID card which has been in effect since 1968. >>Anyone who wants to buy a pistol or semiautomatic military-style assault weapon must first apply for a permit to purchase or carry the weapon.<< Looks like gun stores in South Dakota, North Dakota, Wisconsin & Iowa may see an increase in bussiness. The first challenge may come from the group along with GOA Home Page Universal Background Checks in Minnesota
Laws like this accomplish ONE THING: they convince people to work under the law, and continue doing what they've done for generations. Until they get caught.
