Gun Rights Showdown!
Tomorrow morning, the Minnesota House Public Safety Committee has a choice:- Stampede over your gun rights, or
- Reduce crime and protect your gun rights
What you can do right this minute:
Call AND email these Minnesota House members TODAY and tell them:- Vote NO on HF237
- DEMAND A VOTE, and vote YES on HF1325 Click here to email them all at once.
The Background:
Representative Paymar’s Public Safety Committee will hear the completely replaced HF237, a gun control wish list straight from the Chicago-funded gun controllers:|
GOOD BILL |
BAD BILL |
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HF1325/SF1359 |
HF237/SF458 |
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We call it the |
Criminal Control Act |
Punish Gun Owners Act |
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Chief Authors |
Rep. Hilstrom (DFL)/Sen. Ortman (R) |
Rep. Paymar (DFL)/Sen. Latz (DFL) |
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Co-Authors (House+Senate) |
77+22 = 99 |
8+4 = 12 |
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New Fees |
None |
$25 annual purchase permit + $25 per-gun transfer fee |
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Universal Pistol/Sporting Rifle Registration |
None |
Every purchase, even from a private party Every loan longer than 12 hours |
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New Delays |
None |
Delays purchase permit Issuance up to 30 days |
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New Purchase Permit Denial Reasons |
None |
Chief claims you are dangerous |
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Improves state/federal felon records |
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No |
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Improves state records of dangerously mentally ill |
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No |
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Increases penalties for felon in possession |
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No |
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Helps county prosecutors convict straw purchasers |
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No |
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Supported by sheriffs and prosecutors |
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No |
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Read The Bill |
Universal Registration:
This bill would require universal registration of pistols and sporting rifles, implemented through a “universal” background check, — twice: Every sale of these guns would have to go through a licensed dealer, who would charge you $25 per transfer. These transfers would still require a permit to purchase, for which the House bill would charge you another $25 annually.
Rights Delayed
HF237 would extend the time that sheriffs and police have to process a purchase permit from five to seven business days, and allow the law enforcement official to fingerprint the applicant and extend the deadline to 30 days. Whenever he feels like it.
Rights Denied
Easier Carry Permit Denials
This bad bill would allow sheriffs the judgement to deny a carry permit on the basis of a subjective “likelihood” that the applicant was dangerous.
More Difficult Carry Permit Appeals
Rep. Paymar’s mean-spirited bill outright encourages abusive denials: it removes the sheriffs’ obligation to pay an applicant’s legal fees when a permit denial is overturned — a safeguard that has kept sheriffs departments honest, and bogus denials fairly low, for almost 10 years. The Sheriffs Association has not asked for this unfair reversal of law.
The bill also lowers the sheriffs’ standard of proof of danger to self or other others from “clear and convincing evidence” to the mere “preponderance of the evidence.” Violating your rights should get harder, not easier!
Due Process Protections Gutted
HF237 would remove legal protections against losing your firearm rights. Currently, before you lose your right to own a firearm, you must be convicted or committed by a court. Under the new bill, any involuntary hospitalization, even overnight, would disqualify you from owning guns indefinitely.
Making The Law Abiding Into Convicts
The bill would set a new, very low standard of proof for conviction of serious gun crimes, using the phrase “knows or has reason to believe” to convict sellers who reports a gun stolen, or who sell a gun to a person who later commits a crime.
More Difficult Civil Rights Restoration The bad bill increases the difficulty and expense for a person who has paid their debt to society to regain their civil rights.
