Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus Files Suit to Uphold State Law and Right to Arms at Fair

AmmoLand ^ | 15 August, 2021 | Dean Weingarten

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U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- On 10 August 2021, the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus filed suit against the State Agricultural Society and Sheriff Bob Fletcher to stop them from violating state law by prohibiting lawful, permitted carry at the State Fair.

Minnesota expressly acknowledges that the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights is an individual right. Minnesota is one of only six states without a state constitutional protection of the right to keep and bear arms. Next year, it is likely Iowa will approve of a strong amendment to protect the right, reducing the number of states without such protection to five.

Minnesota has strong preemption laws forbidding lower levels of government in the state from enacting restrictions on the right to arms.  The state legislature has reserved the power to enact firearms legislation/regulation to the state government.  From the news release:

As an arm of state government, the Minnesota State Agricultural Society is completely preempted under multiple state statutes from prohibiting the lawful carry of firearms on the state fairgrounds or during the Minnesota State Fair. Specifically, Minnesota law preempts any local regulation of firearms and ammunition that is inconsistent with state law “to the complete exclusion of any order, ordinance, or regulation”.

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Under Minnesota law, only the State government can make law concerning the carry of firearms.

[From The Deer Stand]

Minnesota: more proof liberalism doesn’t work.