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Minnesota’s own Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance is back on the job at the Capitol. This year, we are seeing a number of very dangerous bills proposed. Second Amendment rights, American liberties, are very much at risk. Metrocrats ( Urban Liberal anti gun Democrats) control both the MN House and the MN Senate. They have done their best to stack committees to pass legislation that will harass law-abiding gun owners, sometimes turning them into criminals.
So far we have two items to report to you. One needs your action this week.
This Week
Paymar’s Gun Owners Criminalization Legislation
This Friday HF953 (Chief author - Paymar) will be heard in the Crime Victims/Criminal Records Division committee a division of Public Safety Policy and Oversight. Members of this committee are:
(Update 03-04-09 1030pm CST: I found out they moved the date. I Don't know when)
Chair: John Lesch (DFL) 651-296-4224 [email protected]
Vice Chair: Ron Shimanski (R) 651-296-1534 [email protected]
Debra Hilstrom (DFL) 651-296-3709 [email protected]
Kory Kath (DFL) 651-296-5368 [email protected]
Paul Kohls (R) 651-296-4282 [email protected]
Jenifer Loon (R) 651-296-7449 [email protected]
Dave Olin (DFL) 651-296-9635 [email protected]
Michael Paymar (DFL) 651-296-4199 [email protected]
HF953 Creates a central state run registration system recording all firearm transfers for use in any civil or criminal investigations.
HF953 terminates any and all private sales of firearms. All transfers must be run through a FFL dealer. Dealer transfer fees will add anywhere from $20 to $100 to the cost of firearms ownership. Residence of cities such as Minneapolis and St. Paul will have to travel out of the city to make any transfers.
HF953 allows police chiefs and county sheriffs to charge whatever they can justify plus $5 for a MN firearms transfer permit. In Minneapolis and St Paul this may well be in the hundreds of dollars depending on the level of investigation. This change is nothing less than a poll tax to exercise your constitutional right to keep and bear arms. This continues the redundant background check that every purchaser of a firearm must go through at the federal level – for free!
HF953 makes you a criminal if you loan a any firearm (even for hunting) to someone for more than 24 hours. Both you and the person you loan the firearm to become criminals. The state run gun registry will be used to check whether you are illegally in possession of that gun - you wil be arrested and the person loaning you the gun will be arrested.
HF953 requires permit to carry holders to go through another background check when purchasing a firearm. Even though permit to carry holders go through a background check every year to maintain their permit to carry.
HF953 regulates the private sale or transfer of firearms even between extended-family members.
Help GOCRA kill this bill by calling the house members above and requesting that they stop this persecution of law-abiding gun owners in its track. Let metrocrat Paymar know that this type of discrimination won’t be tolerated.
Friends and Enemies
Two very strong 2nd amendment supporters, Rep. Cornish & Murdock, proposed an amendment to a Budget Balancing bill required to keep State government in the black that prohibited the state from spending any funds on a state run gun registry. The amendment was very simple. It stated;
“None of these funds may be used to create or maintain a list of firearms owners in the State of Minnesota."
The amendment failed. This means that a majority of the House members favored allowing state funding of a registry of Minnesota gun owners.
Those who voted to keep a gun registry alive, who want access to your gun safe are:
Benson
Bigham
Bly
Brynaert
Bunn
Carlson
Champion
Clark
Davnie
Eken
Falk
Fritz
Gardner
Greiling
Hansen
Hausman
Haws
Hayden
Hilstrom
Hilty
Hornstein
Hortman
Johnson
Kahn
Knuth
Laine
Lenczewski
Lesch
Liebling
Lieder
Lillie
Loeffler
Mahoney
Mariani
Marquart
Masin
Morgan
Morrow
Mullery
Murphy, E.
Murphy, M.
Nelson
Newton
Norton
Obermueller
Paymar
Pelowski
Persell
Peterson
Reinert
Rosenthal
Rukavina
Ruud
Sailer
Scalze
Sertich
Simon
Slawik
Slocum
Solberg
Sterner
Swails
Thao
Thissen
Tillberry
Wagenius
Winkler
Spk. Kelliher
Those who support your right to privacy and who believe that whether you own guns or not is none of the state’s business are:
Abeler
Anderson, P.
Anderson, S.
Anzelc
Atkins
Beard
Brod
Brown
Buesgens
Cornish
Davids
Dean
Demmer
Dettmer
Dill
Dittrich
Doepke
Downey
Drazkowski
Eastlund
Emmer
Faust
Garofalo
Gottwalt
Gunther
Hackbarth
Hamilton
Holberg
Hoppe
Hosch
Howes
Jackson
Juhnke
Kalin
Kath
Kelly
Kiffmeyer
Koenen
Kohls
Lanning
Loon
Mack
Magnus
McFarlane
McNamara
Murdock
Nornes
Olin
Otremba
Peppin
Poppe
Sanders
Scott
Seifert
Severson
Shimanski
Smith
Torkelson
Urdahl
Ward
Welti
Westrom
Zellers
So far we have two items to report to you. One needs your action this week.
This Week
Paymar’s Gun Owners Criminalization Legislation
This Friday HF953 (Chief author - Paymar) will be heard in the Crime Victims/Criminal Records Division committee a division of Public Safety Policy and Oversight. Members of this committee are:
(Update 03-04-09 1030pm CST: I found out they moved the date. I Don't know when)
Chair: John Lesch (DFL) 651-296-4224 [email protected]
Vice Chair: Ron Shimanski (R) 651-296-1534 [email protected]
Debra Hilstrom (DFL) 651-296-3709 [email protected]
Kory Kath (DFL) 651-296-5368 [email protected]
Paul Kohls (R) 651-296-4282 [email protected]
Jenifer Loon (R) 651-296-7449 [email protected]
Dave Olin (DFL) 651-296-9635 [email protected]
Michael Paymar (DFL) 651-296-4199 [email protected]
HF953 Creates a central state run registration system recording all firearm transfers for use in any civil or criminal investigations.
HF953 terminates any and all private sales of firearms. All transfers must be run through a FFL dealer. Dealer transfer fees will add anywhere from $20 to $100 to the cost of firearms ownership. Residence of cities such as Minneapolis and St. Paul will have to travel out of the city to make any transfers.
HF953 allows police chiefs and county sheriffs to charge whatever they can justify plus $5 for a MN firearms transfer permit. In Minneapolis and St Paul this may well be in the hundreds of dollars depending on the level of investigation. This change is nothing less than a poll tax to exercise your constitutional right to keep and bear arms. This continues the redundant background check that every purchaser of a firearm must go through at the federal level – for free!
HF953 makes you a criminal if you loan a any firearm (even for hunting) to someone for more than 24 hours. Both you and the person you loan the firearm to become criminals. The state run gun registry will be used to check whether you are illegally in possession of that gun - you wil be arrested and the person loaning you the gun will be arrested.
HF953 requires permit to carry holders to go through another background check when purchasing a firearm. Even though permit to carry holders go through a background check every year to maintain their permit to carry.
HF953 regulates the private sale or transfer of firearms even between extended-family members.
Help GOCRA kill this bill by calling the house members above and requesting that they stop this persecution of law-abiding gun owners in its track. Let metrocrat Paymar know that this type of discrimination won’t be tolerated.
Friends and Enemies
Two very strong 2nd amendment supporters, Rep. Cornish & Murdock, proposed an amendment to a Budget Balancing bill required to keep State government in the black that prohibited the state from spending any funds on a state run gun registry. The amendment was very simple. It stated;
“None of these funds may be used to create or maintain a list of firearms owners in the State of Minnesota."
The amendment failed. This means that a majority of the House members favored allowing state funding of a registry of Minnesota gun owners.
Those who voted to keep a gun registry alive, who want access to your gun safe are:
Benson
Bigham
Bly
Brynaert
Bunn
Carlson
Champion
Clark
Davnie
Eken
Falk
Fritz
Gardner
Greiling
Hansen
Hausman
Haws
Hayden
Hilstrom
Hilty
Hornstein
Hortman
Johnson
Kahn
Knuth
Laine
Lenczewski
Lesch
Liebling
Lieder
Lillie
Loeffler
Mahoney
Mariani
Marquart
Masin
Morgan
Morrow
Mullery
Murphy, E.
Murphy, M.
Nelson
Newton
Norton
Obermueller
Paymar
Pelowski
Persell
Peterson
Reinert
Rosenthal
Rukavina
Ruud
Sailer
Scalze
Sertich
Simon
Slawik
Slocum
Solberg
Sterner
Swails
Thao
Thissen
Tillberry
Wagenius
Winkler
Spk. Kelliher
Those who support your right to privacy and who believe that whether you own guns or not is none of the state’s business are:
Abeler
Anderson, P.
Anderson, S.
Anzelc
Atkins
Beard
Brod
Brown
Buesgens
Cornish
Davids
Dean
Demmer
Dettmer
Dill
Dittrich
Doepke
Downey
Drazkowski
Eastlund
Emmer
Faust
Garofalo
Gottwalt
Gunther
Hackbarth
Hamilton
Holberg
Hoppe
Hosch
Howes
Jackson
Juhnke
Kalin
Kath
Kelly
Kiffmeyer
Koenen
Kohls
Lanning
Loon
Mack
Magnus
McFarlane
McNamara
Murdock
Nornes
Olin
Otremba
Peppin
Poppe
Sanders
Scott
Seifert
Severson
Shimanski
Smith
Torkelson
Urdahl
Ward
Welti
Westrom
Zellers
