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5-2-11

Minnesota Committee Hears Self-Defense Bill: In a packed committee room — many in the audience wearing green buttons proclaiming, “Self Defense is a Human Right” – a House committee today (Thursday, April 28) heard and advanced controversial gun legislation. House Public Safety and Crime Prevention Policy and Finance Committee Chairman Tony Cornish’s bill expands a person’s ability to defend themselves and their property against perceived threats through the use of deadly force. Although current state allows for the use of deadly force under certain conditions, Cornish’s bill would significantly change the law. For instance, it broadens the definition of dwelling to include all buildings on a person’s property, and also includes tents, motor homes, hotel rooms. It establishes a rebuttal presumption so that the person using deadly force is presumed to possess a reasonable belief that they’re facing imminent threat of great bodily harm or death. It reverses the burden of proof in self-defense cases, so the defender no longer needs to prove their innocence, but prosecutors need to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defender did not act lawfully. The bill allows for a defender to meet force with superior force, and continue using that force until the threat is eliminated…

http://unioneagle.com/2011/05/high-profile-gun-bill-advances-in-the-house/

 

4-15-11

Support a new bill that recognizes all other state permits, allows you to stand your ground, and prevents criminals or their heirs from suing the victim who defends himself.

https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H1467.0.html&session=ls87

8-12-09

The Internet is abuzz with news about the construction of internment camps all across America. Of course, "mainstream" media outlets refuse to touch the subject; or if they do, they pooh-pooh the story; they do what Glenn Beck recently did: try to debunk the story as fallacious and impugn people who speak of it as "conspiracy nuts." The fact that the Becks, Hannitys, Limbaughs, and O'Reillys of the media circus refuse to deal with the construction of large numbers of internment camps does not make them disappear, however… This is an advertisement by the National Guard promoting the Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) of "Internment/Resettlement Specialist." Question: why does the National Guard need to recruit Internment/Resettlement Specialists? What do they know that we should know? …

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin527.htm

Posted: April 21, 2009
10:00 pm Eastern

3-20-09

Court Suspends National-Park Carry: Today, a federal district court in Washington, D.C. granted anti-gun plaintiffs a temporary restraining order against implementation of the new rule allowing concealed carry in national parks and national wildlife refuges. Until further notice, individuals cannot legally carry loaded, concealed firearms for personal protection in national parks and wildlife refuges. The court did grant NRA's motion to intervene in the cases. Under federal law, NRA is entitled to an immediate appeal, and NRA will exercise that right. "Just as we did not give up the fight to change the old, outdated rule, we will not give up our fight in the courts to defend the rule change," said NRA chief lobbyist Chris W. Cox. "We will pursue every legal avenue to defend the American people's right to self-defense." (It was actually the Virginia Citizens Defense League that initiated this fight.)

http://www.nraila.org/News/Read/NewsReleases.aspx?ID=12252

 

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

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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