Gun bill to be introduced to the Senate this week!

I know….i’m starting to sound like a broken record here… but there are more then just a couple steps involved in making a bill, a law. so, for those out there that support our 2nd Amendment, and our right to protect ourselves and our loved ones, please, take a couple minutes and email the senators listed below.

Every bit of support helps!!

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Support the Defense of Dwelling and Person Act of 2011

The Defense of Dwelling and Person Act of 2011 (the gun rights omnibus bill) is continuing to move through the legislature, and we need you to keep the pressure on legislators.

Senator Gretchen Hoffman (R-10) has introduced SF1357, the Senate companion to HF1467. It will be heard in the Senate’s Public Safety committee this week.

Here’s how you can help get this important piece of legislation passed:

Please contact the members of the Senate Judiciary and Public Safety Committee, and urge them to support this bill. Their contact info is at the end of this message.
Write your own Senator and Representative, and ask them to vote YES on HF1467/SF1357. Find who represents you here, add them to your email address book, and put them on speed dial: http://www.leg.state.mn.us/leg/districtfinder.asp
Attend the House hearing tomorrow at 8:15 in Room 10 of the State Office Building. We need a big showing, again, to show our support for the bill.
Attend the Senate hearing later this week (we’ll let you know the moment it’s scheduled). You sent a loud message to the legislators by packing the room during the House Public Safety Policy and Finance hearing. We need you to send the same message to the Senate.

HF1467/SF1357 Summary

HF1467/SF1357, the Defense of Dwelling and Person Act of 2011, brings “Stand Your Ground” protections to Minnesota, restores the presumption that a person using self defense is innocent until proven guilty, enhances Castle Doctrine, prevents the state from seizing guns during an emergency (remember Hurricane Katrina?), extends purchase permits to five years, improves carry reciprocity with other states and requires the government to do its job to serve law-abiding citizens

The full text of the bill can be found here: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bin/bldbill.php?bill=S1357.0.html&session=ls87

Here’s some more detail:

Adds Stand Your Ground
SF1357 brings “Stand Your Ground” protections to Minnesota, removing the requirement that an intended victim of violent crime must retreat from a place where he has a right to be before using deadly force in self defense.

Enhances Castle Doctrine
The bill also strengthens Minnesota’s “Castle Doctrine,” clarifying when and under what circumstances individuals can legally use deadly force to protect themselves in their homes and vehicles. In addition, it creates a presumption that, when faced with an apparent home invasion, carjacking or kidnapping attempt, a person may use deadly force in self defense.

Prevents Gun Seizures During a State of Emergency
Taking a lesson from the problems in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, the bill also bans government agencies from seizing guns or ammo, revoking permits to purchase or carry, closing gun shops, or otherwise suspending our constitutional rights during a civil emergency — or at any other time. It also prohibits law enforcement officers from seizing a person’s gun, unless the person is arrested, or the gun is evidence of a crime.

Extends Purchase Permits to Five Years
The bill also extends the validity of handgun purchase permits from one to five years, adds an annual background check for people holding those five-year permits. It requires the Minnesota Department of Human Services and state courts to make their background check records available electronically to authorized agencies, including the National Instant Background Check system (NICS) — a process that was supposed to have been in place 16 years ago! This should reduce purchasing delays as well as ensuring that state and federal checks produce the same results.

The bill also borrows a page from the Permit to Carry law, providing a more robust appeal process for denied purchase permits, and requiring that police chiefs and sheriffs whose purchase permit denials are overturned must pay the applicants’ legal costs.

Adds Universal Carry Permit Acceptance
Of particular interest to carry permit holders, the final article of the bill updates our carry permit reciprocity standards, allowing people holding carry permits from any other state to carry in Minnesota (under Minnesota law, of course). This should result in a large increase in the number of states where Minnesota permit holders can carry, since many states allow other states’ permit holders to carry on a reciprocal basis.

Please contact Senate Judiciary and Public Safety Committee members and ask them to vote YES on SF1357:

Warren Limmer – (R-32) Chairman
651-296-2159
[email protected]

Scott J. Newman – (R-18) Vice Chairman
651-296-4131
[email protected]
Newman is a co-author of this bill.

Ron Latz – (DFL-44) Ranking Minority
651.297.8065
[email protected]

Barb Goodwin – (DFL-50)
651-296-4334
[email protected]

Dan D. Hall – (R-40)
651-296-5975
[email protected]

John M. Harrington – (DFL-67)
651-296-5285
[email protected]

Gretchen M. Hoffman – (R-10)
651-296-5655
[email protected]
Hoffman is the chief author of this bill.

Bill Ingebrigtsen – (R-11)
651-297-8063
[email protected]
Ingebrigtsen is a co-author of this bill.

Michael J. Jungbauer – (R-48)
651-296-3733
[email protected]

John Marty – (DFL-54)
651-296-5645
[email protected]

Mary Jo McGuire – (DFL-66)
651-296-5537
[email protected]

Julianne E. Ortman – (R-34)
651-296-4837
[email protected]

Dave Thompson – (R-36)
651-296-5252
[email protected]

You can email them all at once by pasting this list into your email client:

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Need that with commas instead? No problem!

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Please contact House Judiciary Committee members and ask them to vote YES on HF1467:

Steve Smith (R-33A) Chairman
651-296-9188
[email protected]
Smith is a co-author of HF1467, and voted for it in the Public Safety committee. Thank him for his vote and encourage him to do the same in the Judiciary Committee

Ron Shimanski (R-18A) Vice Chairman
651-296-1534
[email protected]
Shimanski is a co-author of HF1467. Tell him thanks!

Sheldon Johnson (DFL-67B) DFL Leadership
651-296-4201
[email protected]
Johnson voted against HF1467 in the Public Safety committee. Urge him to vote to YES for civil rights!

Diane Anderson (R-38A)
651-296-3533
[email protected]

Bobby Joe Champion (DFL-58B)
651-296-8659
[email protected]

Tony Cornish (R-24B)
651-296-4240
[email protected]
Cornish is the chief author of HF1467. Tell him thanks!

Glenn Gruenhagen (R-25A)
651-296-4229
[email protected]
Gruenhagen voted for HF1467 in the Public Safety committee. Thank him for his vote and encourage him to do the same in the Judiciary Committee.

Debra Hilstrom (DFL-46B)
651-296-3709
[email protected]

John Kriesel (R-57A)
651-296-4342
[email protected]
Kriesel voted for HF1467 in the Public Safety committee. Thank him for his vote and encourage him to do the same in the Judiciary Committee.

Carolyn Laine (DFL-50A)
651-296-4331
[email protected]

John Lesch (DFL-66A)
651-296-4224
[email protected]

Tina Liebling (DFL-30A)
651-296-0573
[email protected]

Pat Mazorol (R-41B)
651-296-7803
[email protected]

Carly Melin (DFL-5B)
651-296-0172
[email protected]

Joe Schomacker (R-22A)
651-296-5505
[email protected]

Bruce Vogel (R-13B)
651-296-6206
[email protected]
Vogel is a co-author of HF1467. Tell him thanks!

Doug Wardlow (R-38B)
651-296-4128
[email protected]
Wardlow is a co-author of HF1467. Tell him thanks!

You can email them all at once by pasting this list into your email client:

[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]

Need that with commas instead? No problem!

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Message sent. I sure hope this passes.

I just recieved an e-mail from Mr Ron Shimanski stating that this passed again this morning.

It will now move on to the House floor.

Thanks to all that e-mailed.

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I just recieved an e-mail from Mr Ron Shimanski stating that this passed again this morning.

It will now move on to the House floor.

Thanks to all that e-mailed.

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That is great news thanks for the update Tom!

UPDATE!!

As tom previously mentioned, it passed onto the House floor this morning, but the Senate is considering not even bringing this bill to committee. We need to remind these senators that they work for us, not the other way around!!

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Senator Warren Limmer, chair of the Senate Judiciary and Public Safety committee, says that his committee does not have time to hear SF1357 — the Defense of Dwelling and Person Act of 2011. Refusing to hear the bill would kill it for the year.

This is not acceptable!

Please call Senator Limmer’s office NOW at (651-296-2159 and tell him to schedule the bill for consideration THIS WEEK.

Then, call Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch at (651) 296-5981 and tell her that this bill MUST be heard in committee THIS WEEK.

After you’ve called, please email both senators, and tell them SF1357 must be heard in the Senate Judiciary and Public Safety Committee THIS WEEK.

[email protected]

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I sent out many e-mails to remind them that they also need to bring up every bill to a vote. Not just discard what one or two do not care for.

E-mails need to be sent to put pressure on them to hear it at a minimum.

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E-mails need to be sent to put pressure on them to hear it at a minimum.

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http://www.carryforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17127

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URGENT ALERT: TAKE ACTION NOW!

If you do nothing else for gun rights this year, please do this:

Senator Warren Limmer, chair of the Senate Judiciary and Public Safety committee, claims that his committee does not have time to hear SF1357 — the Defense of Dwelling and Person Act of 2011.

Refusing to hear the bill would kill it for the year.

This is not acceptable!

Please call Senator Limmer’s office NOW at (651) 296-2159 and tell him to schedule the bill for consideration THIS WEEK.

Then, call Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch at (651) 296-5981 and tell her that this bill MUST be heard in committee THIS WEEK.

After you’ve called, please email both senators, and tell them SF1357 must be heard in the Senate Judiciary and Public Safety Committee THIS WEEK.

[email protected]
[email protected]

Then, call and email your own senator, and ask him or her to tell Limmer and Koch to schedule the bill.

Thank you for your help in fighting for your civil rights.

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My email is on the way.

Wow… OK. So I’ve never, in my entire life, done this before. I called and emailed all 4… my rep, my senator, Koch’s office and Limmer’s office.

This bill is important and it’s kind of cool to feel like part of the process.

I wonder what the overall numbers are looking like in terms of calls for/against this bill…

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Wow… OK. So I’ve never, in my entire life, done this before. I called and emailed all 4… my rep, my senator, Koch’s office and Limmer’s office.

This bill is important and it’s kind of cool to feel like part of the process.

I wonder what the overall numbers are looking like in terms of calls for/against this bill…

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if it is anything like last weeks showing at the capital, the Proponents far outweigh the opponents.

I also called and emailed, and could not get through on the phone, but i left a voicemail on each system. someone posted up on mnguntalk.com that they got through to someone, and the receptionist said that their office was being “flooded” with phone calls by people who support this, and want it to be voted on.

Called and e-mailed. if enough do this, they will be forced to hear it.

The sqeeky wheel

Squeek sqeek.

Thanks for keeping us up to speed on this Mr. Aaron.

well, the pressure on senators worked! they have “found time” to squeeze it in on Friday….

http://www.senate.leg.state.mn.us/schedule/schedule.php?cmte_id=3053&cmte_type=Standing&ls&date=05%2F06%2F2011&type=daily#Friday

thanks again to all that emailed and called!!!

I knew they would have to hear it if enough called and e-mailed.

Wow… what a bunch of {insert cynically-motivated epithet here}.

Sheesh… and yay us!

FYI in my email this morning

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The bill was heard in the Senate last Friday and passed to the Senate floor. Both chambers are now ready to hear the bills and send it to the Governor.

Thanks for taking the time to write,

ML

Representative Mary Liz Holberg

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FYI in my email this morning

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The bill was heard in the Senate last Friday and passed to the Senate floor. Both chambers are now ready to hear the bills and send it to the Governor.

Thanks for taking the time to write,

ML

Representative Mary Liz Holberg

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sorry, i did not post up the results on friday night. it passed the senate committee 8-3 on friday evening.

I will update when it is voted on both floors this week.

Anyone have the real story on this? I have seen a couple of the news outlets in town touting this as a “shoot first” bill and the police are against it????????? Any updates?