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Legislators pitch amendments on guns, health care, labor and — amendments

By Andy Birkey | 02.13.09 | 6:55 pm

When state legislators want to make major changes to law, sometimes they put the law to the voters to decide. This year, they’re asking Minnesotans where we stand on issues like guns, health care and labor unions. There’s even a bill to ask the voters whether the state Constitution should be amended to change the way Minnesota amends the Constitution.

Cops and immigration enforcement: Man to be deported after being discovered with toy BB gun

By Anna Pratt | 04.25.08 | 1:56 pm

Jorge Emilio Esquivel-Munoz, 31, who is from Mexico but has lived in Minneapolis over the past four years, probably didn’t imagine that hanging out with a friend who was drunkenly fooling around with a toy BB gun…

Gun legislation: It could be worse. A lot worse.

By Dan Haugen | 03.14.08 | 8:56 am

A bill to expand the self-defense definition that lets gun owners use deadly force failed a House committee vote yesterday. Rep. Tony “Stand Your Ground” Cornish, R-Good Thunder, says he still might try inserting the legislation…

Fake guns on the way out

By Sara Reller | 02.07.07 | 9:53 am

St. Paul aims to ban fake guns that look real, and no one seems to mind. As St. Paul plans to ban public possession of real-looking firearms, Gander Mountain has said it will pull all realistic replica guns from store…

Shoot First, Ask Questions Later

By Leigh Pomeroy | 02.03.07 | 10:51 am

The weird, wonderful, wacky world of Minnesota politics, continued
Minnesota state Rep. Tony Cornish (R-Good Thunder), sometimes better known as Gun-Totin’ Tony, is at it again. You see, Tony is the guy who’s responsible for all those signs…