05-22-2013, 12:41 PM
In the wake of thwarted attempts at greater Federal regulation, lots of news related to new state laws.
In MS's neck of the woods, some small steps, but not nearly what advocates for much stricter gun control had hoped.
Snipped:
MINNEAPOLIS — When Minnesota legislators passed the Public Safety Finance Bill during this year's session, they included measures to shore up the state's criminal background check system and to fund school-safety programs.
However, the legislation falls far short of the kind of measures gun control advocates wanted to see passed -- most notably, expanded background checks for gun sales.
Still, proponents of the bill applaud it, noting several measures designed to prevent keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them. For example, the law shortens the amount of time law enforcement and courts have to submit data on felons or other people ineligible to possess firearms to the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
Police chiefs and county sheriffs across the state use such information when they consider applications for permits to purchase or to carry firearms.
Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek said the centerpiece of the legislation is a measure requiring the state courts system to add the names of people authorities have indefinitely detained, or civilly committed, for mental illness. The law would update 20 years of records, to when the federal government created the background check system.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display...und-checks
In MS's neck of the woods, some small steps, but not nearly what advocates for much stricter gun control had hoped.
Snipped:
MINNEAPOLIS — When Minnesota legislators passed the Public Safety Finance Bill during this year's session, they included measures to shore up the state's criminal background check system and to fund school-safety programs.
However, the legislation falls far short of the kind of measures gun control advocates wanted to see passed -- most notably, expanded background checks for gun sales.
Still, proponents of the bill applaud it, noting several measures designed to prevent keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them. For example, the law shortens the amount of time law enforcement and courts have to submit data on felons or other people ineligible to possess firearms to the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
Police chiefs and county sheriffs across the state use such information when they consider applications for permits to purchase or to carry firearms.
Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek said the centerpiece of the legislation is a measure requiring the state courts system to add the names of people authorities have indefinitely detained, or civilly committed, for mental illness. The law would update 20 years of records, to when the federal government created the background check system.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display...und-checks