{"id":106520,"date":"2019-02-26T13:49:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T18:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=106520"},"modified":"2019-02-26T13:49:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T19:43:54","slug":"hundreds-rally-minnesota-protect-2a-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/hundreds-rally-minnesota-protect-2a-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds Rally in Minnesota to Protect 2A Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_106521\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Rally.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hundreds-rally-minnesota-protect-2a-rights\" title=\"Hundreds Rally in Minnesota to Protect 2A Rights\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106521\" title=\"Hundreds Rally in Minnesota to Protect 2A Rights\" class=\"wp-image-106521 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Rally.jpg\" alt=\"Hundreds Rally in Minnesota to Protect 2A Rights\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Rally.jpg 960w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Rally-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Rally-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Rally-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-106521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka, who promised to &#8220;do everything in my power&#8221; to stop any new gun laws from passing this session, posted this picture of the gun-rights rally on his social media page. (<em>Photo: Facebook<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hundreds of people stormed the Capitol in Minnesota to demonstrate against the introduction of new gun control laws.\u00a0 The rally, organized by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunowners.mn\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hundreds-rally-minnesota-protect-2a-rights\" title=\"Hundreds Rally in Minnesota to Protect 2A Rights\">Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus<\/a>, brought in people of all ages from across the state.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the rally?\u00a0 Democrats had pledged early in the legislative session to make two gun control measures their top priority for the year.\u00a0 The two measures are known as HF 8 and HF 9.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revisor.mn.gov\/bills\/text.php?number=HF0008&amp;session=ls91&amp;version=list&amp;session_number=0&amp;session_year=2019\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hundreds-rally-minnesota-protect-2a-rights\" title=\"Hundreds Rally in Minnesota to Protect 2A Rights\">HF 8<\/a> is a bill that would expand criminal background checks to cover private sellers.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revisor.mn.gov\/bills\/text.php?number=HF0009&amp;session=ls91&amp;version=list&amp;session_number=0&amp;session_year=2019\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hundreds-rally-minnesota-protect-2a-rights\" title=\"Hundreds Rally in Minnesota to Protect 2A Rights\">HF 9<\/a> is a bill that would formally adopt a &#8220;red flag&#8221; law which would allow relatives or law enforcement officers to petition a court to confiscate firearms from people deemed to be a danger to themselves or others.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats and their supports call the proposed gun laws &#8220;common sense.&#8221;\u00a0 The anti-gun group Protect Minnesota issued a written statement in support of the proposed measures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are not extreme or experimental measures,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;Half of all Americans live in states that have comprehensive criminal background checks and over a third live in states with Red Flag laws.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrators strongly disagreed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s about our inalienable rights to self-defense as Americans.\u00a0 It&#8217;s about our right to defend ourselves against a tyrannical government.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why our Founding Fathers wrote the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights,&#8221; one of the speakers said according to local news affiliate <a href=\"https:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2019\/02\/23\/its-about-our-right-to-defend-ourselves-gun-rights-supporters-rally-at-capitol\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hundreds-rally-minnesota-protect-2a-rights\" title=\"Hundreds Rally in Minnesota to Protect 2A Rights\">WCCO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/tennessee-ccl-holder\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hundreds-rally-minnesota-protect-2a-rights\" title=\"Hundreds Rally in Minnesota to Protect 2A Rights\">Heroic Tennessee CCL Holder Takes Down Murderer in Dental Office<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of us in this room that have had enough, and it&#8217;s time to start riding herd on the rest of these people that want to take your rights away from you,&#8221; Republican Rep. Cal Bahr told the crowd.\u00a0 &#8220;They will not go quietly into the good night.\u00a0 They need to be kicked to the curb and stomped on and run over a few times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Legal background checks lead to lists, lists lead to databases, databases lead to registration, registration leads to confiscation,&#8221; said Republican Rep. Steve Drazkowski.\u00a0 &#8220;History clearly shows us, through the millions who have died because of government&#8217;s confiscation of guns, that we must stand firm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of the proposed laws are hoping that recently elected representatives running on a &#8220;common-sense gun safety&#8221; platform will allow the measures to become law.<\/p>\n<p>However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/hundreds-rally-at-minnesota-capitol-against-proposed-gun-control-laws\/506270302\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hundreds-rally-minnesota-protect-2a-rights\" title=\"Hundreds Rally in Minnesota to Protect 2A Rights\">Star Tribune<\/a> reports that Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka has told gun rights supporters that he would &#8220;do everything in my power&#8221; to stop any new gun laws from passing this session (see Gazelka&#8217;s speech in the video below).<\/p>\n<p><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">***<a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/\" campaign=\"BuySellGA_Register\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a>***<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of us in this room that have had enough, and it&#8217;s time to start riding herd on the rest of these people that want to take your rights away from you,&#8221; Republican Rep. 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