In May of 2015, Minnesota enacted an omnibus firearm reform law. The law went into effect yesterday, 1 August, 2015.
One of the reforms was a change in the wording for Minnesota to recognize permits from other states. The previous wording required that the other State's law be "substantially similar" to Minnesota's permit law. The Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety is required to publish a list, and if the State that a person has a permit for is not on the list, then the permit is considered valid. Here is the old law, that ceased effect on 31 July:
Subd. 16.Recognition of permits from other states.The new law has a new criteria:
(a) The commissioner must annually establish and publish a list of other states that have laws governing the issuance of permits to carry weapons that are not substantially similar to this section. The list must be available on the Internet. A person holding a carry permit from a state not on the list may use the license or permit in this state subject to the rights, privileges, and requirements of this section.
Subd. 16.No new list had been posted by late Sunday evening, 2 August. A contributor at opencarry.org suggests that the new Minnesota list will recognize an additional eight states, and remove recognition from two, Texas and Utah. That is mere rumor at present.
Recognition of permits from other states.
(a) The commissioner must annually establish and publish a list of other states that have laws governing the issuance of permits to carry weapons that are notsubstantiallysimilar to this section. The list must be available on the Internet. A person holding a carry permit from a state not on the list may use the license or permit in this state subject to the rights, privileges, and requirements of this section.
I do not wish to be a test case, but it appears that at least for this weekend, all states' permits were valid in Minnesota. DPS has had ample time to create a new list. The Minnesota DPS has not issued a list under the new law.
The new law is clear. If a state is not on the list, its permit is valid in Minnesota. I think the Minnesota authorities would have a tough time prosecuting someone from say, North Dakota who had a permit from North Dakota and was carrying in Minnesota before the Minnesota DPS publishes a new list. Clearly, the old list is no longer valid.
Maybe a new list will be posted on Monday.
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When Kansas became a dust bowl California tried to stop Kansans from moving to California by closing the California border. The supreme court put a stop to that by declaring Americans had the right to move any where in the country. States can not pass laws that interfere with freedom of American to go any where in the country, especially laws that prevent you from taking your personal belongings with you or that interfere with your federally guaranteed rights such as keep and bear. proving that all of your rights travel with you. Not recognizing the right to keep and bear arms is unconstitutional, permit or no permit. shall not infringe, a permit is an infringement. No state has the authority to deny any of your federally guaranteed God given rights especially the right of self protection and freedom of movement.
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ReplyDeleteThey just released the new list. They didn't include Wisconsin as similar and they DROPPED Utah from the list. Pathetic.
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