June 1 (final) edit: bullet dodged, with a nice little "fuck you" for the antis on the side.  Thanks for all the hard work from everyone who supported our pro 2A organizations, made phone calls, emailed, showed up...I'm sure MNGOC can explain the next steps better than I can so I won't try.  On balance, not a bad year at all though.

May 24 edit: From the MN Gun Owners Caucus facebook page:

Back to back wins!

ENVIRONMENT BILL PASSED the Senate with these provisions for Hunters/Sports Shooters
- NO new lead ammo ban
- .410 legal for Turkey
- NV/Thermal use legal for Predators
- Grants for Firearm Safety in Schools
- Blood tracking dog use for wounded game

May 15 edit: Okay, I'll call it now.  Smoke em if you got em.  This isn't over by a long shot, but it's also okay to celebrate the small wins.    
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Please consider joining and contributing some money.  The antis outspent the NRA this past election.  Everytown and Soros are going to be giving lots of support to our local politicians for gun control attempts in 2019, and it's not the time to get complacent with just a one vote majority in the state senate.  My only association with MN Gun Owners Caucus is as a regular member.

Whoanelly --

I'm writing to ask for your support in the months ahead for what will be our biggest challenge in the last several years in Saint Paul.

Last year our full-time presence at the Minnesota State Legislature throughout session helped stave off gun control efforts that were being put forth by anti-gun DFL metro leadership.  We've been able to challenge Ramsey County's ban on firearms at polling places and take the fight to cities like Plymouth, Savage, Eden Prairie, and Saint Louis Park.

This week's election has brought forth a new set of challenges with an anti-gun majority in the Minnesota House and a new Governor-elect who campaigned on a number of extreme gun control measures -- all backed by millions of dollars from Michael Bloomberg's Everytown & Moms Demand Action spent in the elections this year.

We're going to have our work cut out for us in the weeks ahead - and we're going to need your help!

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Anyway we could get a list of all Republican state senators so we can fill there email boxes up?

Could get ahead of the curve before the session even starts .

It's coming, and Walz is going to be pushing these attempts as Governor (that's not surprising to me, but here it is):

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2018/11/11/talking-points-tim-walz/

https://www.senate.mn/members/index.php?ls

Doing my part.  Hopefully the Senate can stand tall and the out-state democrats won't fold.

I also fear the days of Republican being in power on a state-wide level is a thing of the past.

Ellison as AG will not be something we can vote our way out of. He's going to fundamentally change things during his tenure.

Having lived in cali not by choice for some years a long time ago I agree this is an extinction level event, outstate is irrelevant and when you put it the same leadership that lost AGAIN perhaps you should read a few more books on "leadership" Also quit having your elected serving candidates folding like cheap lawn chairs on important issues this years ticket was good never seen anybody at my house asking if I was going to vote (i did) but I cannot live here any longer taxes, regulation, the never ending refenderums I have had enough.

Yeah, where are you guys going?  The red states of Wisconsin, Florida, or Arizona?  You can't outrun this anymore.

Going to SD the tsunami of stupid from the incoming overlords will be monumental I grow weary of having the same battles over the same issues but the fight IS worthy, but I want to enjoy my life as I see fit exercise my rights as I want and keep more of the fruits of my labor. I don't want to pay more because they misuse and abuse the taxpayer dollar by reckless spending for failed programs be it IT, medical, energy, human services or regulatory I don't think it's up to the dfl to determine what I am "allowed" to have, nor what medical I can use.

I don't want to provide financial support for my opposition I grew up here and when I came back it wasn't this bad, but it's declining at a rate that's just unreal. I have to make a decision live under an authoritarian leftist state or enjoy my life, I did my time I am going to enjoy my life. Just what do I get for my taxes not much, not even a reach around. I don't get good roads in spite of dedicated funding for transportation, the schools should be exceptional but they are not, we as a state are not competitive with the surrounding states, major corporations have left for better business climates we are following california's lead look at them now.

Tagging in to follow

I've already paid for my rights overseas, I'm not going to pay monetarily here for them as well. They can come and try to take my rights way from me should they choose to do so.

Game on.

Never mind.

Well said.

Well said.  I for one cannot just pick up and move.  And I would suspect most cannot do that.  It won't matter soon if everyone moves to a "free state" because federally things will change, we will have gun laws federally.  So no matter what you will have to fight no matter where you are at sooner or later, and you may as well do it sooner before there is more steam behind the anti-gun crowd.

Very true

Not being politically active, where is the best bang for the buck as far as a monetary donation for gun rights in MN?

MN Gun Owners Caucus.  https://www.gunowners.mn/

I would add that we have to show up on the capitol during pertinent committee meetings and votes, as well as repeated, targeted emails and calls to the few "soft" republicans and few stronger pro 2A democrats.

Taking a note from prior conservative activists training, someone could send mailers/lit drop houses in solely the local neighborhood of those "soft" republicans to maintain pressure and instigate further support for 2A.

Anyone with previous history as a precinct chair or senate district chair would have been given a voter list of republicans nearby for targeted literature drop, using a mailer critical of their anti 2A actions.

Absolutely correct. That sharia law muslim will destroy the state. he's the final nail in the coffin.
What a nightmare!!

That's because the libs revel in their little bubble of supposed moral superiority and enjoy being loud and obnoxious while telling everyone else what to do.  Conservatives just want to be left alone so it takes a lot to get most of us mobilized to protest or support legislation.

Ty

Agreed. I was at the capital back in late February/ early March when a bunch of gun control bills were supposed to be brought up in a committee. That was the first time I'd seen that kind of thing first-hand. One of the things that really stuck out to me was that they have that kind of activity down to a science. Even getting into the overflow room, they seemed to be following the same playbook.

I guess if you are going to flee Minnesota because Walz and Ellison won and the Dems took the house, well, see ya later.  For me, I am staying and continue to fight.

We were able to get pro-gun rights legislation passed when Republicans were in the minority in state government.  We don't need to control both houses, just one.  Right now, we hold the senate by one vote. Like last time, we will continue to beat gun control efforts  IF we stay organized and stay together.

I remember putting pressure on outstate Democratic Senators to vote no on gun control measures or face losing their seat in the next election.  Rural democrats MUST LISTEN to their constituents or lose their seat.  They are the ones to go after, threaten, persuade, goad, and force to vote down gun control legislation.  It has worked in the past, and it will work again.

If you haven't yet joined Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus (www.gunowners.mn) and/or donated to MN Gun Owners Political Action Committee  (www.mngopac.org)

DO IT NOW.  We will prevail if we organize, show up, and put our money where our mouth is.

Our ancestors didn't run at Concord Bridge. Don't you run from Minnesota.  It's worth fighting for. I refuse to become a felon in my own state for owning a legal firearm.

I also talked to our sheriff and later buttonholed one county commissioner at church.  I talked to both about our county becoming a "2A sanctuary county" if the gun-control nuts somehow manage to win out on the upcoming 2A rights fight.

The sheriff said he'd support it if the county residents wanted it.  The commissioner had heard of counties in Southern Illinois declaring themselves 2A sanctuary counties, and he liked the idea.

I'm thinking on a county-by-county basis, we could really embarrass the governor and legislature, AND actually be saved from automatically becoming felons if the "evil black gun" ban, confiscation, registration legislation would somehow pass.

And remember, a law that cannot be enforced is not a law at all.  

Can you describe what the sanctuary counties are avoiding? I'm intrigued and at the same time very skeptical.

Illegal immigrant sanctuary cities refuse to enforce federal or state laws that cause an arrest or even the hassle of illegals, right? 2A sanctuary cities and or counties do the same for gun owners, i.e, refuse to enforce anti-gun laws that  violate the Second Amendment. A example would be the sheriff’s office refusing to register AR rifles, not recognizing a  state law to confiscate and or arrest a person possessing a formerly legal purchased AR or firearm. State law cannot ursupt federal law and so on.  Ellison would be faced with trying to arrest an elected law enforcement official for not enforcing state law. Who would he send, the state patrol?  Let the fight began n in rural Minnesota. It would be a “ no-go zone” for Walz and Ellison.

I'm all for it, I just don't see it happening.

Thanks. I’m glad there’s a county precedent already. I think if the State decides to make owners of legally purchased and held firearms into felons, there will be a strong backlash in many counties in Minnesota.

Commissioners are just Local yokels like the rest of us. We buy gas from them, sit by them in church, go to the kid’s high school games with them, to get the idea.

All politics are local!

I don't see this sanctuary idea as all that useful.

A county sanctuary is only useful as long as that Sheriff, or one who agrees with it is in office.

What happens if you get pulled over by a State Trooper ?

MN Gun Owners Caucus was talking up the non-compliance of bump stock bans in Massachusetts, that's really great, and I applaude the civil disobedience, but do you really want a felony conviction over a bump stock?
And for those who didn't turn them in, are they still using them?  If not, what have you proven?  They still won.

I think bump stocks are the perfect firearm accessory for backyard-burial storage.
You can pretend to be cool and edgy by breaking the (anticipated) law, metal detectors won't find it when the cops show up, and they won't rust away when you forget to dig it up or the plastic bag you put it in leaks.

I've never owned one. No need to dig up my 200 ac. back yard.

If you're going to take a stand on something, bump stocks is likely not it.  Even most gun owners have a dim view of them, which is why none of the gun rights orgs are really spending any resources on fighting it.

Now if you want to take a stand on mag capacity or semi automatic weapons, those at least have a direct tie in to the second amendment.  You could argue that machine guns do as well, as they are in common use by regular soldiers, but they also don't have much support from civilian gun owners.  Although, I suspect if the SCOTUS ever shoots down mag and semi auto bans, they will likely get pressure to hear a MG ban case as well.

The dissent opinion in the recent 3rd circuit New Jersey mag capacity case is a very good read.  The Supreme Court is going to have to deal with this at some point.

https://reason.com/blog/2018/12/06/powerful-dissent-charges-judges-who-casu

The dissenting judge basically makes a great point by stating a 1 round magazine would be just as reasonable using their logic.

10 years after Heller, and governming bodies and courts are still acting like it doesn't exist.

The supreme court is gonna have to hear the challenge to mag bans and awb's at some point.

The left was so he'll bent on keeping Kavanaugh off the court for a reason, they are damn afraid what his stance could do to state level gun control.

If a case does have a chance going that high I hope a GoFundMe or some donation can be setup to help it.

Bump

http://www.startribune.com/legislative-session-starts-tuesday/504050472/

KSTP poll (on Facebook).

You’ll want to make sure you take this poll from @KSTP on Facebook.

KSTP Poll: https://t.co/zqJvg6BM9Y pic.twitter.com/AnncWE6Cv1

MN Gun Owners Caucus  (@mnguncaucus) January 8, 2019

I'm not seeing the poll

Is it only on facebook?

I believe so. Just tap on the Yes or No box in the KSTP FB post to vote.

Have to be logged in to vote.

Yep, need to have FB.