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5-4-08

Oops, Wrong Store: Dwayne A. Curry of St. Paul had been sentenced on nine burglary and theft-related felonies since 1986. He died while trying to hold up Trail Liquors in Inver Grove Heights. The armed gunman who was shot and killed with his own gun after he tried to rob a liquor store in Inver Grove Heights was identified Friday as a St. Paul man with a long rap sheet. Dwayne A. Curry, 42, died a few hours after the liquor store manager shot him at Trail Liquors on Thursday morning. Curry demanded cash, the manager grabbed the gun and the two scuffled, authorities said. The manager, Matt Huerta, also was shot. He was reported in good condition Friday morning at Regions Hospital in St. Paul. (Sounds as though Mr. Huerta might have fared better if he had been carrying his own gun.)

http://www.startribune.com/local/18493619.html

 

5-3-08

Oops, Wrong House: Jon Sokol wasn't trying to be a hero when he confronted a burglary suspect who had brazenly broken through the front door of his home in St. Paul…"As I stepped around the corner, he hit me ... right between the eyes," Sokol said. "And I fired the gun. "Down on the ground he went and I insisted, in a not very nice way, that he not move," he said. "I held him at gunpoint until the police arrived." …According to the criminal complaint, Spencer feigned "unconsciousness, but finally responded ... that he had not been shot" after police arrived at 5 a.m. Wednesday at the Sokols' home in the 1400 block of Carroll Avenue. (All’s well that ends well but this case illustrates why it’s wiser to hole up in a designated safe room and wait for police to arrive.)

http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/18472794.html

3-14-08

Good Afternoon Minnesota from GOCRA,

I want to thank everyone who took their time off to come to the Capitol yesterday for the Stand Your Ground Hearing. Your presence was important in sending the message that we want this bill to become law. We will either attach it to another bill or we will be back next year, and the year after until it is enacted. I know this was a first time experience “politicking” at the Capitol for some of you and you did not like the games that you saw being played with your life. All I can say is it does matter who you work to elect or not. On the other hand, this is the farthest the bill has gone toward enactment so far. Those who sent emails and showed up Thursday get all the credit. I also want to thank Representative Cornish and Senator Pariseau who authored these bills and who work very hard to support all gun owners in Minnesota. I also appreciate all the co-authors who signed on to support these bills as well. Now, here’s the real story about yesterday.

Poor Poor Representative Britta Sailer, she represents a very pro-gun, pro right to self defense, pro Liberty district in Northern Minnesota whose constituents understand self reliance and would prefer that the government just let them take care of themselves.  By all rights, if she votes against The Stand Your Ground legislation her constituents would understandably be pretty upset.  If she votes for the Stand Your Ground legislation the Crime and Public Safety Committee Chair Mullery, an ardent anti-gun Metrocrat, will most certainly hold it against her.  What to do, what to do?  The fix is to work with Chairman Mullery and the Chairman Of Health and Human Services Committee, Representative Paul Theisen (another metrocrat) and create a “scheduling conflict” for Representative Sailer to present her bill HF 3559 in the Health and Human Services Committee at the same time the Stand Your Ground legislation is being voted on in the Public Safety Committee.  Walla – she can’t be two places at once and the problem is solved! Chairman Mullery is happy – because he sees the Stand Your Ground legislation die for another year.  Representative Sailer gets herself a huge pass from the committee chairmen because golly, she had to present her legislation in another committee which forced her to miss this crucial vote. That’s her answer to being absent for the vote and supporting your rights, and she actually believes her constituents are none the wiser.  

Minnesota criminals were handed a break by the scheming of two committee chairs and one northern DFL member who claims to be a gun owner supporter and no one knows it, except you and your Representative. The politicians think they have covered their trail so every one of them wins. Well, how about the next rape victim who must hesitate to act in self defense because she just isn’t sure whether she would go to prison for not retreating into the parking ramp stairwell and hit the panic button. She is not happy, but her future rapist is. Her rapist will still on the loose (as opposed to in the hospital or morgue). This is really game playing with your personal safety. 

GOCRA recognizes that it has many DFL friends in the House of Representative, but virtually all of them are from greater Minnesota.  Unfortunately every legislative session with a DFL majority is anti gun owner, anti self defense and anti Liberty because Metrocrats chair all the major committees.  Liberal Urban Democrats (we call them Metrocrats) will take away your liberty in a heartbeat while bending over backwards to protect every criminals’ liberty.  Metrocrats will push to create gun registries for law abiding citizens which they admit will do nothing to trace guns owned or sold to criminals by criminals. It is not their intention to disarm criminals folks. We know they want your guns and all they need to know is who has them so the government can eventually confiscate your firearms. Your gun rights are never safe with a DFL majority who has proven to us time and time again, they can not be trusted. Thursday, the House Public Safety Committee Hearing was a perfect example of this as Chairman Mullery kept his "promise" to give the bill a hearing it's just that we expected a fair hearing. However, the fate of the Stand Your Ground bill was decided behind closed doors of the DFL caucus before the committee meeting began.

This was an excellent day in Minnesota for all criminals, gang bangers, inept county attorneys and inept chiefs of police (you know who you are).    

You won’t get this type of report in any newspaper or on any radio or TV station.  You will get the “backstory” from GOCRA.

It’s about liberty, your liberty.

Gene German

Executive Director

3-09-08

Glock 21 Alert: (This comes from one of the smaller police departments in the Phoenix area.)

I am sending this out to everyone that you know and let everyone know to send it to everyone they know. This is a huge officer safety issue for those agencies that carry the .45 Cal. Glock 21.

Mesa PD came across a failure to fire issue with a Glock 21. The initial inspection revealed nothing. A call was made to Glock who said, 'oh you have the bad trigger bars.' Apparently Glock 21's manufactured with serial #'s EFG might have received a short trigger bar assembly. The bad trigger bar assemblies have the numbers 4256 stamped on them. The new, correct trigger bar should have the stamping #'s of 4256-1. FYI... of the guns pulled by Mesa PD, 3 more were found to be bad. Mesa PD is/has pulled all of their Glock 21's off of the road.

Glock was asked to overnight ship the new trigger bars; however, they said they wouldn't be shipped until Monday 3-3-08. Please call Glock to order the new trigger bars. I am a current Glock Armorer and I was not notified; therefore, I doubt if anyone knows about the problem. Apparently Mesa called Phoenix PD and they have seen some of the same problems, but they were not notified by Glock either.

 

2-25-08

Minnesota Considers Deadly-Force Bill: A group of Minnesota lawmakers has introduced a bill that would allow citizens to use deadly force as their first option when feeling threatened. The proposed bill has caused major concern for at least one group of Minnesotans as LeAnn Wallace reports. "We think it's just another way for people to shoot people and have an excuse to shoot them." Joan Peterson is a member of "Protect Minnesota" a group formed to prevent gun injuries and death. The group calls the bill the "Shoot First, Ask Questions Later" bill. Peterson says there's no need for this law and she fears it could result in unnecessary shootings and deaths.

http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/news/local/15901517.html

16 Feb 08

From John Farnum, A Ray of Hope!

This note from a large retailer in the Midwest:

"I just negotiated the sale of fifty G19s to a local, private university.  In light of recent events, this university's officials have decided to covertly arm their entire security staff, as well as a number of administrators and professors.  As part of the deal, we'll also be providing concealment holsters, ammunition, accessories, and training, for these  newly-armed academicians.

As one might expect, this is all being done with extreme secrecy, as it constitutes an embarrassing admission by them that everything they've done up until now to insure campus safety has been a painfully obvious failure, all pseudo-rationalizing, excuse-making, and self-deception notwithstanding.  They have finally admitted to themselves that they've been going in the wrong direction!

This small group of weary and frustrated, but courageous, academicians have, at long-last, been compelled to confront the incontrovertible fact that there is only one way to effectively deal with VCAs, and that is to confront them, at the critical moment, with deadly force.  There is no other viable alternative!

We've opened the door at least a crack!"

Comment: In our time, we have witnessed barbarous murders and mayhem in every place pandering politicians have naively assured us is "safe:" schools, federal buildings, military bases, churches, parks, restaurants, and our own homes.  Naively declaring these places "Gun-Free Zones" has become a cruel joke!

In UT and TX, legislation is moving forward that will officially permit qualified and licensed adults, including students and staff, to go armed on campus, as they do everywhere else.  Legislation is also moving forward to officially allow licensed CCW holders to go armed in parks and other public property.

 

2-14-08

A MN Court decided the Timberlake case.

The court affirmed it is legal for police to stop or

pull over anyone just because they were seen in possession of a gun.

The decision allows the police to search a person or car if a gun was seen

by a anyone, even if they aren't an officer.

In other words this decision allows the police to arrest and search anyone who

has a permit to carry and is legally carrying open, inadvertently flashes, or prints. 

The judge gave her opinion that guns are dangerous,

and thus an officer has the right to search and arrest a person who possesses a

gun until the arrestee proves himself innocent, or in other words, shows his

permit, and it is verified.

Could this lead to violations of constitutional rights against unreasonable searches if

we are seen in possession of other legal but dangerous items like knives, cars, or table saws?

Hopefully this case will be appealed to higher courts and overturned.

2-5-08

National Guardsman Convicted In Weapon Malfunction: A drill instructor in the National Guard has been convicted in a Wisconsin federal court of illegally transferring a machine gun after a rifle he loaned to a student malfunctioned, setting off three shots before jamming…That means now that anyone whose weapon malfunctions is subject to charges of having or handling a banned gun, according to an expert witness who reports that the particular problem is a well-known malfunction and was even the subject of a recall from the manufacturer…"Basically if your Ruger 10/22, Browning Citori Over and Under or Remington 11-87 malfunction and fire more than one round at a time; the ATF will now consider it a machine gun," he wrote.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59650

 

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