Bob Collins
‘I’m a Second Amendment person. The weapon didn’t do it. It was the person behind it,’ the man said at his daughter’s bedside.
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Tag: Guns
The Minnesota Court of Appeals upheld a district court judge’s decision to dismiss a charge against Christopher Prigge, who was stopped by a Maple Grove police officer for suspected driving under the influence in April 2016. A later search of the car discovered the gun in the center console, and, thus, the additional charges. Read more →
The NRA’s Grant Stinchfield, a conservative talk show host, said the Washington Post does ‘more damage to our country with a keyboard than every NRA member combined has ever done with a firearm.’
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The fear that the Obama administration would take guns and ammunition away from Americans was great for the guns and ammunition business.
Now that Donald Trump, a strong gun rights advocate, is in the White House, times are tough.
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When Philando Castile was shot to death last July, many people expected the National Rifle Association to leap to the defense of Castile, who had a permit to carry the gun he was carrying. It’s what the NRA does, of course.
But not this time. Why not? Read more →
The Big Lake school board will meet tonight and they most certainly will remove a roadblock preventing the Big Lake High School’s trap shooting team photo from appearing in the yearbook. This, of course, assumes there’s a shred of common sense in Big Lake. Read more →
An Anoka ammunition manufacturer is cutting jobs. People aren’t afraid of losing their guns, and it’s killing the industry. Read more →
The Hibbing School Board and the Hibbing Rifle and Pistol Club intended to give a new deal to use the Lincoln Elementary gun range a year’s test.
It lasted not quite two weeks after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration reported elevated levels of lead at the gun range. Read more →
A custom rifle manufacturer has apparently decided to halt the sale of a Mankato-themed rifle after complaints that it used a noose to depict the Dakota Conflict. Mankato was the site of the largest mass execution in history when thirty-eight Dakota men were hanged.
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Rep. Rick Becker, R-Bismarck, says gun owners could still get a permit — and undergo the required training — if they want to. Read more →
The Minnesota Supreme Court today settled a long-running dispute over whether a BB gun is a firearm under Minnesota’s weapons laws.
It’s not, the court ruled, overturning a ruling from the Minnesota Court of Appeals, and reversing the conviction of a Ramsey County man. Read more →
A county judge in La Crosse has police seething over her order that when they testify in her courtroom, they can’t have their guns nor duty belts with them.
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The New York Times reports today that people openly carrying their legal weapons at last week’s assault on Dallas police made it tougher for police to fight back. It introduces a new wrinkle in an old debate: If everyone has guns, how do you tell the good from the bad? Read more →
There’s a little something for everybody in the Pioneer Press story about the arrest of a man who allegedly pointed a gun at a person at a gas station on Sunday evening. Read more →
Rep. Bob Gannon, R-Slinger, is proposing legislation that would triple the damages for any shootings that occur at a business where guns are banned. Read more →