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

Chris Steller — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:30:49 +0000

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]

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