{"id":69701,"date":"2019-01-15T11:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69701"},"modified":"2019-01-14T10:29:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T16:29:27","slug":"the-passive-aggression-toward-law-abiding-gun-owners-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69701","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Passive Aggression Toward Law-Abiding Gun Owners&#8221; Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Metrocrats dropped &#8220;House File 8&#8221; (HF8) this past week.  The bill will institute &#8220;Universal Background Checks&#8221; for all firearms <em>transfers<\/em> in Minnesota.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bill:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Expands background checks to <em>all<\/em> firearms.  Current law requires the for pistols and &#8220;assaault weapons&#8221;. <\/li><li>Raises the age to purchase a firearm to 21.  <\/li><li>A permit to purchase is good for one firearm, and expires immediately.   They are currently valid for a year.  And you&#8217;d need to get one to possess or receive any firearm at all, and it includes transfers between private parties.   <strong>We&#8217;ll come back to this part<\/strong>.  <\/li><li>A permit to carry is no longer usable as a permit to purchase or transfer.<\/li><li>Chiefs of police will no longer be able to process transfers. <\/li><li>All private party transfers are covered; you&#8217;ll need to get a background check.  Even\/especially if you&#8217;re a straw buyer!<\/li><li>Getting rid of all exemptions in current law.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone notice what that third bullet does?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every legal transfer includes a background check. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For making those checks useful in tracing crime weapons, they need to keep those on record.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And in IT, we have a term for &#8220;pieces of data that contain pointers to new pieces of data&#8221;.  That term is &#8220;database&#8221;.    HF8 would create a registry of guns in Minnesota &#8211; or at least of the guns owned by law-abiding citizens.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is today&#8217;s DFL.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re not a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gunowners.mn\">MN Gun Owners Caucus<\/a>, you need to be.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Metrocrats dropped &#8220;House File 8&#8221; (HF8) this past week. The bill will institute &#8220;Universal Background Checks&#8221; for all firearms transfers in Minnesota. The bill: Expands background checks to all firearms. Current law requires the for pistols and &#8220;assaault weapons&#8221;. Raises the age to purchase a firearm to 21. A permit to purchase is good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69701","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=69701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69702,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69701\/revisions\/69702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}