Residents of West Seventh may want to follow a Minnesota legislative proposal concerning walz chides gun rights ‘extremists,’ signs pair of gun control measures into law.
Two new gun control laws were part of the $880 million public safety package the legislature finalized on Monday.
At his bill signing press conference, Walz didn’t expound on how the new laws — which will implement universal background checks on transfers of pistols and certain types of “semiautomatic, assault-style” rifles and allow judges to issue Extreme Risk Protection Orders to enable police to seize guns from people deemed to be a danger to themselves or others — relate to his “weapons of war” tweet.
But he did promise the new laws, which go into effect Aug.
“I grew up around firearms,” Walz told media, legislators and gun violence prevention activists gathered at the signing ceremony Friday.
I was a ‘top gun’ of the congressional trap shoot [event] three years in a row.
I know how to use these things.
I understand our rights as Americans to do these things.” “But I refuse to allow extremists to define what responsible gun ownership looks like and make this [debate] look like it is about the Second Amendment,” Walz continued.
As the measure advances, residents of West Seventh can follow amendments and contact Sandra Pappas regarding the final language.
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