REGIONAL- Gov. Tim Walz has signed landmark gun control legislation expanding background checks for firearms and enacting a “red flag” provision enabling authorities to intervene when …
Minnesota law is explicitly clear about the limits of local authorities in passing their own gun control measures. The state’s firearm preemption law declares that the “legislature preempt.
Mayor Melvin Carter has promised to sign the ordinance, which would require residents to store unattended guns with locks or in safes. But is St. Paul’s attempt to regulate firearms legal?
The legislation also includes a new controversial early release program that could greatly reduce the sentences for thousands of Minnesota prison inmates.