AM.MN: More articles being written about more guns being sold since Obama

Shoot me if you’ve heard this one before. Folks who make their money off guns tell an inquiring reporter that business has been “crazy” (crazy-good, they mean) since Obama came on the scene. Just ask an assault-rifle maker, a pawnbroker and a gunsmith in St. Cloud — the firearms manager at Gander Mountain backs them up. So do FBI statistics on Minnesota gun-sale background checks — except when they don’t, like last month. (You gotta read to the end of the story for that fact.)

Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning …

BEMIDJI: Explosives sales boom as Independence Day approaches. Remember when fireworks were illegal in Minnesota? Now kids sell them. [Bemidji Pioneer]

WORTHINGTON: Counties test communications in case of large-scale disaster. In a nod to The Who’s rock opera “Tommy,” it’s called “Operation Can You Hear Me?” [Worthington Daily Globe]

MINNEAPOLIS: Two wheels very good. Travel and Leisure magazine named Minneapolis one of the top 10 cities in the world for bicycling. [Associated Press]

DULUTH: Feds OK poopy beaches through 2016. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the City of Duluth have worked out a deal that will allow raw sewage to flow into Lake Superior for nine more years. [Duluth News Tribune]

MINNEAPOLIS: Hating on hip hop costs city 201 Grover Clevelands. The City of Minneapolis agreed to pay $201,000 to a bar owner who said heavy-handed regulation was really racist red-lining of saloon patrons. [Star Tribune]

WILLMAR: Gov. Sanford mystery solved; now where did Willmar’s Wendy’s go? The restaurant closed abruptly last month with no word; yesterday a guy taking down the big “Wendy’s” signs said, “We’re here to take down the sign. That’s all we know.” [West Central Tribune]