About 1,000 of my closest friends turned out for the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus’ “2019 Rally To Protect The 2nd Amendment” on Saturday.
Bear in mind – the weather on Saturday was inclement at best. I think the good guys expected half this number for turnout.
Compare this to “Protect” Minnesota’s turnout on a beautiful day a few weeks back:
The comparison is inescapable – Second Amendment Civil Rights activists are real people, motivated by their real passion for securing civil liberty for all Americans; gun control activists are uninformed dupes of plutocrats who seek to enslave Real Americans.
Go ahead, Ryan Winkler. Bring those bills to the floor. I dare you.
It’s been said that you should never ask a question you don’t already know the answer to, and to that I’d add don’t throw down a gauntlet you know will be picked up unless you know you’ll win.
The MN reprobates will absolutely bring up gun grabbing bills, and they will pass them, too. They also will not pay any political price for doing it. The thing y’all have going for you is a GOP Senate majority, which will crush them like bugs.
Y’all lose the majority though and your goose is cooked, I’m afraid. They’ll hang more restrictions and regulations on you than you can ever hope to carry and still have room for a pistol.
Speaking of pistols, I have a friend who favors carrying a wheel gun. He just purchased a .38 Special made by Hermann Weihrauch in Deutschland. https://www.hermann-weihrauch-revolver.de/products/hw-38?lang=en
He says it handles very nicely and is priced very affordably.
Swiftee’s right! Lose that very narrow senate majority and MN becomes a cold New Jersey.
I love the one guy in the bottom pic hanging his head. A picture is truly worth a thousand words.
They also will not pay any political price for doing it.
Probably not depending on their district they represent swiftiee but it will serve as prescedent for a SCOTUS case within 5 years. And with a solid majority now on the court and RBG hanging on for dear life we should win any 2nd amendment case thrown their way.
SCOTUS can’t save ya, POD.
California and New Jersey have crafted the path and it’s withstood challenge. They add requirements like background checks to purchase ammo, limit magazine capacity, restrict easily removeable magazines and add “fees” to anything related to firearm purchase or ownership. I’m told Cali’s fees added about $2 to the price of a box of ammo, for instance.
Constitution hating, leftist reprobates have taken lessons from anti-abortion legislation. You can’t ban it outright, but you can make it so difficult to access it might as well be banned.
Stocking up now isn’t a bad idea.
“Stocking up now isn’t a bad idea.”
particularly a good idea for guns/ammo you may have that have no record of being transferred to you ( family gift, etc) and do pay cash because credit card companies DO sell purchase histories to 3rd parties.
Remember Big Data is involved.
If you’ve a credit card history of purchasing 10mm ammo but there’s no record of you doing a background check to purchase a that lovely Sig Saure P220 Hunter the gun grabbers will have an idea of what to look for when they execute a Red Flag warrant.
Think to the future, Big Data isn’t going away anytime soon.
if you buy ammo with cash, can they still trace you?
They can trace you if you buy ammo at Cabellas or Fleet Farm. They want to see my driver’s license for every ammo purchase. Data gets entered into the cash register and from there . . .
Has anybody bought ammo from a gun show? Do they do the same?
JD
I think that’s a store policy because from what I can find there is no MN State or Federal requirement to capture your identity at the POS – most likely it started out as a way to protect themselves from citation for underage sales, which doesn’t mean the information can’t be repurposed or monetized at a later date.
If all they are doing is entering the DOB its probably no big deal, if they are entering your DL/Passport ID# then they are creating a permanent record of your purchases. I say permanent record because with no law regulating the specifics of the sale process there is no requirement that they ever expunge that data from their records. A well written subpoena (and a compelling legal reason) could conceivably capture a long history of ammo purchases.
I buy most of my ammo at a bait shop near my favorite range with cash and without showing ID.
A friend of mine told me that if he were ever to buy any guns and/or ammo, he’d buy some old junk guns, that may or may not work anymore and a couple of boxes of related ammo. He would have his good guns and ammo hidden somewhere else, so if or when the goon squads come to confiscate the guns of law abiding citizens, he would just turn over the junk and that ammo.
I have a friend, Joe, who buys all his bulk ammo at gun shows. He says they never ask for ID