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Help get a new gun range built in the Twin Cities!

Help get a new gun range built in the Twin Cities!

If you live in the Twin Cities, you know how busy the small number of indoor ranges get, and how long you have to wait for a lane on a winter Saturday.

(And if you’re in Greater Minnesota, lend the city folks a hand anyway!)

A local, familiy-owned business is working to build a new gun store and range in Osseo (map), a suburb (near Maple Grove and Brooklyn Park) the northwest metro. Chris and Jeanine Willliamson have been FFLs for years, and are looking to expand their family business to meet this need.

Of course, some people will oppose anything to do with firearms.

We need to show the Osseo City Council that there is strong local support for this business, at that it will attract people and dollars into the Osseo community.

What you can do:

Go to Osseo tonight:

Please attend the Conditional Use Permit meeting TONIGHT in Osseo:

If possible, arrive by 6 p.m., but get there whenever you can. Please be neatly dressed and polite! This isn’t a protest, but a show of calm support! We recommend AGAINST open carry for this event.  

 

Monday, June 17

June 17, 2013, 7 p.m.

 

Osseo City Hall (map)

415 Central Ave

Osseo, MN 55369 

 

Call and email the City Council:

Please be very polite and friendly, and tell them IN YOUR OWN WORDS that you support a new gun store and range, and that you would visit Osseo and spend money there, both at the range and at local businesses such as gas stations and restaurants.

Mayor Duane Poppe, term expires 12/31/14

Phone: 612.359.1606 – Email:  dpoppe@ci.osseo.mn.us

Council member Allan Hartkopf, term expires 12/31/14

Phone: 763.425.2929 – Email:  ahartkopf@ci.osseo.mn.us

Council member Bonnie Heinen, term expires 12/31/16

Phone: 763.425.3310 – Email:  bheinen@ci.osseo.mn.us

Council member Mark Schulz, term expires 12/31/16

Phone: 763.425.7457 – Email:  mschulz@ci.osseo.mn.us

Council member Rick Weber, term expires 12/31/14 

Phone: 763.424.6122 – Email:  rweber@ci.osseo.mn.us

More info:

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/06/13/proposed-gun-range-would-sit-next-to-osseo-hs/

Osseo Public Planning Commission

Conditional use permit needed for 14-20 lane gun range and retail sales, gunsmithing, and gun safety classroom space. Potential locations being considered include: old senior center site; Block 22, the old NRG Dance Studio and the old Advantage Stone and Brick Supply site were all being considered.

 

The proposal will be voted on by the planning commission that evening, then passed to the Osseo City Council for a vote on June 24.

 

ZERO gun control this session

 

Out-of-state email slams Minnesota gun rights supporters

There is an inflammatory email being sent to Minnesotans by an out-of-state individual who has never actually accomplished anything for Minnesota gun rights (or those of any other state that we can see).

 

The real purpose of this email is the same as all the rest of the emails this individual sends: to solicit donations.

 

GOCRA and its friends in both the House and the Senate, including long-time gun rights champions Sen. Warren Limmer and Rep. Tony Cornish, as well as gun rights bill sponsors Sen. Julianne Ortman and Rep. Debra Hilstrom, spent hours in good faith negotiations with SF235’s author, Sen. Ron Latz.

 

The result was a delete-all amendment that completely replaced the original bill, substituting a very different bill that was deserving of GOCRA support.

 

SF235 has no gun control. It does not send “mental health” data or gun owner fingerprints to the Feds. To say that it does, one must be dangerously ignorant, or a liar.

 

GOCRA, the group that brought Shall-Issue carry to Minnesota, has been protecting and extending gun rights in Minnesota for a quarter century.

 

We were at the Capitol for the whole session, and our lawyers (with a combined 70+ years of proven gun rights advocacy in MInnesota) carefully scrutinized every word of this legislation, as well as the more than a dozen bills we sent to defeat this session.

These Second Amendment supporters — DFLers Hilstrom and Saxhaug, as well as Republicans Ortman, Limmer, and Cornish — deserve your support. They’ve earned it with their actions.

Should the police track and store your whereabouts?

At Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance, “Civil Rights” is our middle name.

While this isn’t a gun rights issue, it tracks very closely with the civil rights we fight for:

Minneapolis Police (as well as many other departments) use automated license plate readers to log millions of times, dates, and locations of cars every month. They know where you were, and they keep this data as long as they want.

A proposed law, House File 474 (and Senate companion SF385), would force police departments to immediately delete data on non-suspect cars (like yours).

This bill is scheduled for a vote tomorrow in the House. If you think that the police shouldn’t track the every move of innocent citizens, ask your state senator representative to support HF474/SF385.

The ACLU summarizes the issue well:

 

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