The most important update to MN gun law since the Minnesota Citizens Personal Protection Act

GOCRA ^ | 4-15-11 | joel olson

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Here’s an overview:

Adds Stand Your Ground

Enhances Castle Doctrine

Prevents Gun Seizures During a State of Emergency

Extends Purchase Permits to Five Years

The bill also borrows a page from the Permit to Carry law, providing a more robust appeal process for denied purchase permits, and requiring that police chiefs and sheriffs whose purchase permit denials are overturned must pay the applicants’ legal costs.

Adds Universal Carry Permit Reciprocity

[WOBBLY BOB]

Of particular interest to carry permit holders, the final article of the bill updates our carry permit reciprocity standards, allowing people holding carry permits from any other state to carry in Minnesota (under Minnesota law, of course). An out-of-state permit holder who can not possess firearms under Minnesota law, can not legally carry here either. This should result in a large increase in the number of states where Minnesota permit holders can carry, since many states allow other states’ permit holders to carry on a reciprocal basis.

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Do we have to have another class because of new laws?

[WOBBLY BOB]

no, but it’s good to stay up to date.