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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

Posted on 06/05/2010 5:30:13 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

"If there's an unequivocal opposite to growing up around guns," says Andrew Rothman, "it's being raised by New York Jews." He puts down his glass of water and wipes his dark goatee with a napkin. It would be quite the outlandish statement were he not talking about himself.

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Rothman is the executive director of the Minnesota Association of Defensive Firearm Instructors. Before you can get a permit to carry, you have to take a handgun class taught by a guy like him.

He doesn't fit central casting's stereotype of gun nut. Nor do his three companions for dinner tonight at a St. Paul restaurant. One is a retired attorney, another a law professor, a third a retired business consultant. Everyone at the table is packing.

(Excerpt) Read more at citypages.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Outdoors; Sports
KEYWORDS: banglist; gunshows; loopholes; mn
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Actually, not a bad job of reporting by the lefties at CP's

Long read, worth the while.

1 posted on 06/05/2010 5:30:14 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

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


2 posted on 06/05/2010 5:38:21 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Are You Ready?)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

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


3 posted on 06/05/2010 5:44:04 PM PDT by swatbuznik
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To: swatbuznik

CP?....Fair and Balanced??

;-)


4 posted on 06/05/2010 5:51:09 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Are You Ready?)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
"Beretta, on the other hand, is a more traditional pistol with a hammer instead of a slide."

Nitpicking, I know.

5 posted on 06/05/2010 6:02:23 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck.)
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To: Eagles6

Nothing gets by a FReeper.....

;-)


6 posted on 06/05/2010 6:05:03 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Are You Ready?)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
.22 caliber Browning Buckback

What's that? A brokeback reporter Buckmark?

7 posted on 06/05/2010 6:06:09 PM PDT by Stentor
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To: Stentor

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


8 posted on 06/05/2010 6:12:47 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Are You Ready?)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

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


9 posted on 06/05/2010 6:17:19 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

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?


10 posted on 06/05/2010 6:20:39 PM PDT by downwdims (It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority)
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Well, the premise is that one can purchase a handgun at a show without a permit and the author proved that to be false....


11 posted on 06/05/2010 6:23:45 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Are You Ready?)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

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


12 posted on 06/05/2010 6:24:16 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I suppose.


13 posted on 06/05/2010 6:24:48 PM PDT by downwdims (It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Found this link on the CP website:

Man Chooses 30 Days In Jail Instead Of Quitting Marijuana

14 posted on 06/05/2010 6:46:24 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
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.
15 posted on 06/05/2010 9:00:54 PM PDT by swatbuznik
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To: trussell

Ping!


16 posted on 06/06/2010 8:22:43 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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"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.

17 posted on 06/06/2010 8:36:36 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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CP?....Fair and Balanced??

Absolutely!

Between lunatic left and maniac left.

18 posted on 06/06/2010 8:38:39 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
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.

19 posted on 06/06/2010 8:55:37 AM PDT by Dayman
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo; EGPWS

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 :)


20 posted on 06/06/2010 9:13:44 AM PDT by trussell (I carry because...When seconds count between life and death, the police are only minutes away)
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