LOL.
Posted on 03/28/2022 1:33:14 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Sen. John Marty, (DFL) Roseville, told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS his proposed bill which would require gun owners to have a license would, in the long run, help save lives.
Under Marty’s proposed bill, anyone purchasing a gun at a commercial business, gun shows or through individual sales, would have to acquire a license which would require gun safety education and training similar to what people have to do when they obtain a driver’s license.
“It seems to me that it is no more of a burden on lawful gun owners than driver’s licenses are a lawful burden on drivers,” said Marty.
Marty told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS he is trying to target juveniles and young adults whom he said often have an easy path toward buying guns.
“For young people, the 15-year-olds who can easily access guns now and commit armed carjackings and murders and other things, you know, they would have to go through training and they would have to go through a process to do this,” said Marty. “And, we would have limits so that some of these 16-year-olds couldn’t go out and buy guns.”
Rep. Steve Drazkowski, (R) Mazeppa, said he disagreed with Marty and called the proposed bill, which has a companion bill in the House, “the most outlandish and extreme gun bill I have seen in my 14 years in the Minnesota House of Representatives.
Drazkowski told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS he does not share the same belief as Marty that a gun licensure requirement will save lives.
“A firearm is just simply a tool, guns are not violent, guns are just guns and people are violent,” said Drazkowski.
Drazkowski also said he does not believe Marty’s proposed bill would pass constitutional tests either.
“I would say that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, period,” said Drazkowski.
So far, Marty’s bill, and the House companion bill, has not had a scheduled committee hearing.
Coming from a state that allowed the burning of an entire city.
Driving isn’t a right. Owning & bearing a firearm is an absolute enumerated right in The Constitution.
Are the “licenses” free, or do you have to pay to exercise a constitutional right?
Makes one feel so much safer that the outlaw who shot you didn’t have a fire arms license.
How about a license to get an abortion?
Abortion kills orders of magnitude more people than guns.
Truth!
Can require a license for a Constitutional right but not an id to vote (also a Constitutional right). Yup. Logical
It’s Minnesota. I’m certain that some sort of fee or tax will be involved.
The issuance of PAL’s (Possession and Acquisition Licenses) since 1979 (when they were known as Firearms Acquisition Certificates) have not stopped the criminal misuse of firearms in Canada. Why would it be any different in Minnesota or elsewhere?
How about we put video surveillance on voting centers in the 55 mile by 70 mile Minnesota rectangle that the DFL uses to steal the state every “election”?
Marty therefore supports a license to vote, right?
What does that dumb SOB not understand about that?
What a idiot. 15 year olds cannot purchase guns and have not been able to for my lifetime. What does this have to do with teenage gangbangers?
“Marty therefore supports a license to vote, right?”
Don’t be silly.
LOL.
” 15 year olds cannot purchase guns and have not been able to for my lifetime. What does this have to do with teenage gangbangers?”
Absolutely nothing.
Giant forehead syndrome...never a good thing.
It should be no more trouble than getting a driver's license. Or the proposed gun license.
You looked up “Liberal” in the dictionary and found this picture, didn’t you?
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