REP. FOGELMAN OPPOSES CONTINUED DEMOCRAT ATTACK ON 2ND AMENDMENT
ST. PAUL – Law abiding gun owners in the State of Minnesota will continue to pay the price for unnecessary anti-gun legislation being approved by House Democrats, according to State Representative Marj Fogelman (R-Fulda).
This week, Fogelman said the majority party approved three proposals that continue to force new government mandates on those who believe in the 2nd Amendment.
“The gun bills that passed off the house floor were another example of the majority party’s belief in ignoring accountability for criminals,” Fogelman said. “All of these bills have penalties for law abiding gun owners. Criminals do not follow the law, so these laws will have no effect on them.”
Last year, Democrats – who control both bodies of the legislature and the governor’s office - enacted “universal” background checks and red flag confiscation orders. Now, they have approved legislation that establishes an arbitrary deadline for reporting lost and stolen firearms, which Fogelman said makes a criminal out of a crime victim if they fail to report a stolen gun within 48 hours.
There’s also a bill that creates an expanded definition of trigger activators, which Fogelman said makes some firearms, including Glocks, illegal.
But the biggest change, according to Fogelman, would place additional firearm storage burdens on law-abiding firearm owners.
“This bill makes it harder for someone to grab their firearm if someone was attempting to break into their home,” Fogelman said. “It requires a firearm owner to store a firearm unloaded and equipped with a locking device or loaded in a locked firearm storage unit.”
Fogelman said all three anti-2nd Amendment bills now head to the Minnesota Senate, where Democrats hold a one-seat majority, and one of their members who is alleged to have recently burglarized her stepmother’s home in the middle of the night will likely cast the deciding vote on all three of these proposals.