Testing Minnesota's gun show loophole (How easy is it to buy a firearm in the Twin Cities?)

City Pages ^ | 6/3/10 | Matt Snyders

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Actually, not a bad job of reporting by the lefties at CP's

Long read, worth the while.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Aw...crap...I screwed up the excerpt...click the link and ignore the Olbermann-Bachmann stuff that got included in the excerpt....SORRY.

[swatbuznik]

I am SHOCKED! Truly shocked that the CP actually had an article like this....

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

CP?....Fair and Balanced??

;-)

[Eagles6]

"Beretta, on the other hand, is a more traditional pistol with a hammer instead of a slide."

Nitpicking, I know.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Nothing gets by a FReeper.....

;-)

[Stentor]

.22 caliber Browning Buckback

What's that? A brokeback reporter Buckmark?

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

The author was admonished in the comments section.....

[Sawdring]

I quit reading the City Pages when the ditched the personals.

[downwdims]

Actually picked up CP at the Liqour store because of this article. Very good. Shockingly the reporter didn’t do their homework and get their permit to purchase.

If the premise of the article is to see how easy to purchase a firearm, why wouldn’t you...you know...follow the rules?

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Well, the premise is that one can purchase a handgun at a show without a permit and the author proved that to be false....

[eyedigress]

M.O.B. will tell the twin cities what they can have. The liberal utopia of gangs and cops.

[downwdims]

I suppose.

[Sawdring]

Found this link on the CP website:

Man Chooses 30 Days In Jail Instead Of Quitting Marijuana

[swatbuznik]

CP?....Fair and Balanced??

Let's put it this way...there were so many unread copies of this newspaper outside the men's room, that I could have saved the company for money by using it as toilet paper.

[EGPWS]

Ping!

[EGPWS]

"This is our number-one priority right now," says Joan Peterson, a Duluth resident who sits on the board of Citizens for a Safer Minnesota and the national Brady Campaign. "As it stands, violent criminals can go to these shows and buy several weapons with no oversight."

If the likes of Joan were truly for a safer Minnesota, they would be advocating that everyone capable get a permit to carry.

The stats show crime is reduced thus Minnesota is safer.

[EGPWS]

CP?....Fair and Balanced??

Absolutely!

Between lunatic left and maniac left.

[Dayman]

Background checks are just as unconstitutional as outright bans.

If it's OK to use a background check before allowing a person to exercise one right then why isn't it OK to use the same system before someone can register to vote or get an abortion? After all, felons can't vote and people who are mentally incompetent can't consent to medical procedures. Somehow I don't think the lefties would view NICS checks so warmly then.

[trussell]

Very good article. Nice to see someone actually did their homework before running their mouth.

I conducted a personal sale of a firearm in Minnesota. We met in a parking lot and I checked his permit to purchase and his identification. Nice and legal...can’t remember his name now, not that it matters anyway :)