Minnesota CCW: City woman takes on state’s new gun law

Bloomington Sun Current ^ | 6/5/03 | Harvey T. Rockwood

[jdege]

City woman takes on state’s new gun law

By Harvey T. Rockwood
Sun Newspapers
(Created 6/5/03 8:48:05 AM)

A Bloomington woman is leading a regional charge against the new Minnesota law that allows most people the privilege of carrying a concealed handgun.

The new legislation took effect last week amid controversy between supporters and opponents of the law.

But Kim Stanley of Bloomington said she believes Minnesotans will demand the law be reversed once they learn the dangers it presents.

She is part of a group that will meet next week to plan a rally against the law in Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s hometown of Eagan. Conceal carry opponents contend Pawlenty signed the measure without weighing its consequences.

Stanley rolled out a petition drive last week aimed at getting the law nullified.

“As soon as I heard about it I started this petition,” Stanley said. “Everybody’s signing it. A lot of people don’t want this law.

“I am a mother afraid for my life and my children’s lives,” she said.

Several church groups have already come out against the law and one, Edina Lutheran Church, has filed a lawsuit to get the wording of some sections changed. Stanley said opponents have at least one ally within the administration – Public Safety Director Charlie Weaver.

“He sees some really bad things in this law,” she said.

Stanley said she plans to meet Tuesday, June 10, with members of groups such as the Million Mom March of Minnesota, Southeast Minnesota Alliance for Peacemaking and Citizens for a Safer Minnesota, all groups favoring tighter restrictions on gun ownership. The meeting was tentatively set for 2 p.m. at the office of Citizens for a Safer Minnesota in St. Paul.

She said the group will begin planning an anti-conceal carry rally in Eagan for mid-summer, possibly around July 4.

“It’s Republican territory and that’s Pawlenty’s hometown,” Stanley said. She said the groups are looking for a park suitable for a rally.

The coalition of anti-gun forces also will begin planning a strategy for the next legislative session, Stanley said.

Stanley said she’s aware that none of the 34 states that previously approved conceal carry laws have repealed them.

“I think that’ll be different in this state,” she said. “They jumped the gun on this and they already know they made a mistake.”

[jdege]

Bang!

[Portnoy]

It works here in Michigan. Just the other day, a masked knife wielding guy tried to rob a gas station here near Detroit. The attendant drew his gun and the robber backed off.

The caught the whole incident on the security camera.

[BFM]

"She said the groups are looking for a park suitable for a rally."

Might we suggest Massachusetts, Maryland or California?!?

[thewah]

What were the existing laws before the conceal carry? Were they like the ones in other states that make you carry it in the open?

[Centurion2000]

“I am a mother afraid for my life and my children’s lives,” she said.

THEN CARRY A GUN LADY !!!

[tickles]

i was thinking I should get a CCW just because I can (you don't actually have to carry one just cause you have one right?) sounds like I should decide quickly tho, the chickens are sqauking quite loudly it seems.

(and yes I do know that 'just because I can' is a pretty dumb reason)

[jdege]

The meeting was tentatively set for 2 p.m. at the office of Citizens for a Safer Minnesota in St. Paul.

Note that they have offices. And paid staff. And hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants from outstate antigun organizations. And a budget that's ten times that of MNCCRN. And less than 100 active members.

Yet they're the "grass-roots" organization, and we're the paid tools of the evil gun industry.

Odd, that.

[Traffic_Can]

What were the existing laws before the conceal carry? Were they like the ones in other states that make you carry it in the open?

I believe that they were "may" issue. Perhaps many CCW carry people anyway. This womyn is obsurd!

[ezo4]

Im so glad I dont live in MN. What's the big deal B!t@H. (in my best cartman voice)

Why dont these morons study what happens in other states that have ccp.

[jdege]

Nope. Minnesota law was that if your sheriff or police chief gave you a permit, you could carry according to whatever limits the sheriff or police chief put on the license.

If your chief issued a permit to a security guard that allowed carry only while on duty and in uniform, that might mandate open carry. But absent such a requirement, you could carry open or concealed as you chose.

There's never been a distinction in Minnesota law.

Also, there was no provision for owners to forbid carry on their property.

[El Laton Caliente]

She is most likely the last person you want carrying. Based on articals I've read she is "projecting". She doesn't trust herself with a firearm so other people shouldn't have them. Typical of the anti's.

[Billthedrill]

The bottom line? "I'm afraid and I'll feel much better if I can take honest people's guns away from them, whether it will actually help or not." That, in a nutshell, is the motivation that fuels the MMM.

[helper]

Get it. You may well find a day when you need to and can't wait 45 or so days to be legal.

[jdege]

Yep. There's a 30-day max wait, under the new law, but that can still be too long.

[Aeronaut]

"She said the groups are looking for a park suitable for a rally."

Might we suggest Massachusetts, Maryland or California?!?

There's a nice one available in Kabul....

[Orbiting_Rosie's_Head]

Edina Lutheran Church, has filed a lawsuit to get the wording of some sections changed

So judges can rewrite the wording of a law in Minn? What kind of drugs are these people on?

[cryptical]

What ever happened to them losing the name 'Citizens for a Safer Minnesota'?

I thought they couldn't use it anymore.

[RogueIsland]

I give you Kim Stanley, hyper-emotional bliss-ninny and all around twit.

[teeman8r]

i pity the fools who throw some firecrackers in that park... the mad moms will charge them with firing their guns in public... and then they will rush the "gunman" and beat him to a pulp and say they saved the day...

i cannot wait for maryland to join the states able to carry...

teeman8r