having a loaded pistol in the center console of the car is not \u201ccarrying a pistol<\/a>.\u201d \u00a0The word \u201ccarrying\u201d requires a connection between the pistol and your clothes or some part of your body.<\/p>\nExcept . . . that means a person doesn\u2019t need a permit to carry to drive around with a loaded pistol in the center console.\u00a0 That\u2019s plainly not what the legislature intended when it set up the background check with training and proficiency requirements for pistol carriers.<\/p>\n
The rule for transporting firearms has been \u2018unloaded, in a case, in the trunk\u2019 for as long as I can remember.\u00a0 Transporting a loaded pistol out of the case required a permit to carry.\u00a0 But reading this opinion \u2013 even if I DO have a permit to carry, but my loaded pistol is in the center console, then it\u2019s not touching my body so I\u2019m not \u201ccarrying\u201d so my permit doesn\u2019t cover that activity. \u00a0Suddenly, that has become illegal transportation of a loaded gun outside the case, regardless of having a permit to carry.<\/p>\n
This decision, and the prior \u201ccarry\u201d decision (State v. Larson), show that the Court of Appeals has a problem.\u00a0 Either (1) they don\u2019t understand the permit to carry law so they interpret it incorrectly; or (2) they understand perfectly what was intended but hate the idea of armed citizens, so they\u2019re intentionally twisting the law to fit their own agenda.<\/p>\n
Either way, the Legislature needs to fix the statute by defining the word \u201ccarry.\u201d<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
As the decision shows us, it’s long overdue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Minnesota Court of Appeals decides that having a loaded pistol in the center console of the car is not \u201ccarrying a pistol.\u201d \u00a0The word \u201ccarrying\u201d requires a connection between the pistol and your clothes or some part of your body. Except . . . that means a person doesn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64020","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=64020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64024,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64020\/revisions\/64024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}