{"id":43814,"date":"2014-05-12T13:31:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T18:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=43814"},"modified":"2014-05-12T15:43:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T20:43:04","slug":"correction-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=43814","title":{"rendered":"Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"

A spokesman from the Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance responds to Joe Doakes’ piece this morning.<\/p>\n

The letter from GOCRA follows, with added text bolded by me:<\/p>\n

———-<\/p>\n

Doakes is referring to the modifications to 518B.01 on page 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At 4.16, you can see the existing language:<\/p>\n

4.16 Subd. 6. Relief by court. (a) Upon notice and hearing<\/strong>, the court may provide<\/em>
\n4.17 relief as follows:<\/em><\/p>\n

and at 6.16, in the same subdivision, here’s where the new language starts:<\/p>\n

6.16 (g) An order granting relief<\/strong> shall prohibit the abusing party from possessing firearms<\/em>
\n6.17 for the length the order is in effect if the order (1) restrains the abusing party from<\/em><\/p>\n

Due process is preserved.<\/p>\n

———-<\/p>\n

In the chaos of this past few weeks, I’d missed the final version of the bill.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s not perfect – but as the spokesperson says, due process is <\/em>preserved.\u00a0 And in a session where the only thing that separates “good” laws from “bans on magazines over seven rounds” is canny and tenacious negotiation rather than slogineering in pursuit of prinicple, it’s really the better of\u00a0many possible endings.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:\u00a0 More on this story tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A spokesman from the Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance responds to Joe Doakes’ piece this morning. The letter from GOCRA follows, with added text bolded by me: ———- Doakes is referring to the modifications to 518B.01 on page 4. At 4.16, you can see the existing language: 4.16 Subd. 6. Relief by court. (a) Upon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-legislature","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43814"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43817,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43814\/revisions\/43817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}