Minnesota: Constitutional Carry and Self Defense Law Reform to be heard Wednesday!

[dustind]

From an email, bolding mine.

Two critical pieces of pro-gun rights legislation are coming up for a hearing in the House Public Safety and Security Policy and Finance Committee on Wednesday, March 8th at 10:15am:
HF188: Constitutional Carry (also known as Permitless Carry)
HF238: Defense of Person and Dwelling Act (also known in other states as "Stand your Ground")
These are the two centerpieces of our 2017 legislative agenda --- and this year we have the best chance of passing them through the legislature because of the work that supporters like you did during the 2016 elections - by putting a pro-Second Amendment legislature in place in both house of the Minnesota legislature.

We've worked closely with the National Rifle Association (NRA) and GOCRA President Joseph Olson to bring this legislation forward.

We need your help to ensure that these bills move forward in the legislature this year.
Join us on Wednesday, March 8th: If you can be at the hearing, please join us! The hearing will be in the State Office Building (100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Drive) in Room 10. The hearing begins at 10:15am. We recommend arriving early. You may carry in the State Capitol Complex if you have a Minnesota Permit to Carry - prior notification is not required. We recommend carrying concealed.

Call your State Representative: Let them know you support HF188 and HF238 and want to see them move forward in 2017.

E-Mail your State Representative: Follow-up with a brief e-mail to your State Representative reiterating your support for HF188 and HF238.

E-Mail the Committee: E-Mail the members of the House Public Safety and Security Policy and Finance Committee. You can find a roster of members at this link.

Please join the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus if you haven't already: It's our members and their financial support that enable us to move legislation like this forward. Join us today!
It's important that we have a good crowd on hand. If you can be there that morning, please come down!

We've excited about next week - and hope we can see you there.

Yours in Liberty,
Bryan Strawser
Chair
Sent by Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, PO Box 131718, Saint Paul, MN 55113-0015, a Minnesota nonprofit & IRS 501(c)(4) organization.

 

[dustind]

The hearing is tomorrow (Wednesday). I will be there around 8:00 am. We have a surprise guest speaker, John Lott. It should be pretty interesting as far as hearings go, we think our opponents may be planning some shenanigans.

http://www.startribune.com/stand-yo...-t-support-fears-of-armed-citizens/415622074/ written by Lott himself.

The live feed is at https://events.qwikcast.tv/QwikCast...-941e-4bbb-a2c4-fd790b514e1f&eventPageId=1366

 

[DaleA]

Thank you Dustind for posting this information.

If anyone wants to see the video of the committee meeting on 'constitutional carry' or 'permitless carry' (a bill introduced by Jim Nash) it is on youtube. It's about 50 minutes long. There is a good introduction (IMhO) of the bill by Robert Doer at the 6:30 mark followed by a host of the 'blood in the streets' crowd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf9kj_1SXQA&feature=youtu.be

A left and right discussion of the bill can be found here:
Protect Minnesota-anti-gun group.
http://protectmn.org/legislative-priorities/

Mitch Berg--right wing radio talk show person.
http://www.shotinthedark.info/wp/?cat=340

 

[steve4102]

Thanks for all your efforts and hard work.
To bad Governor Dayton will veto this legislation at the request of MN Law Enforcement.

 

[dustind]

The House Speaker Rep. Kurt Daudt has said he likely won't include the pro-gun bills into the House Public Safety Omnibus Bill. We need everyone to call and write to try and get him to change his mind.

We still have a realistic chance of getting Self Defense Law Reform through this year.

From a www.gunowners.mn email:

Earlier this month, two critical pro-Second Amendment bills were heard in the Minnesota House of Representatives Public Safety and Security Policy & Finance Committee:
HF188, authored by Rep. Jim Nash, would make permits to carry optional throughout Minnesota. This concept is known as "Constitutional Carry" and fully recognizes that a law-abiding citizen should not have to beg government permission to carry a firearm. Permits would remain available for individual wishing to carry in other states that recognize the Minnesota Permit to Carry.

HF238, also authored by Rep. Jim Nash, reforms Minnesota's self-defense laws, codifying decades of case law, expanding castle doctrine, and removing the "duty to retreat" in Minnesota law. This concept is often known as "Stand your Ground".
Both bills were heard in a committee hearing earlier this month - the bills were held over with the intention of being included in the 2017 Public Safety Omnibus Bill.

If they are not included in the Omnibus, the bills will die until next year.

We need your help TODAY in order to ensure that these bills move forward!

Call and e-mail the following Minnesota House Republican Leaders and tell them that law-abiding gun owners in Minnesota are eager to see important self-defense legislation bills move forward in the Minnesota House this year:
House Speaker Rep. Kurt Daudt
Office: 651-296-5364
E-Mail: rep.kurt.daudt@house.mn

Majority Leader Rep. Joyce Peppin
Office: 651-296-7806
E-Mail: rep.joyce.peppin@house.mn

Public Safety Committee Chairman Tony Cornish
Office: 651-296-4240
E-Mail: rep.tony.cornish@house.mn
It's important to both call and e-mail so that your message is heard loud and clear. Be polite, but firm in your position that these bills should move forward this year.

Gun owners across Minnesota worked hard in 2014 and 2016 to elect pro-Second Amendment majorities in both the Minnesota House and Senate. Now is the time to advance substantive pro-gun rights legislation.

Again, please call and e-mail these leaders TODAY!

We'll have further updates in the coming days.

Yours in Liberty,
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Bryan Strawser
Chair



The NRA, GOCRA, and a few smaller groups are also asking their members to contact the House leaders about this issue.