Gunzlingr
05-28-2003, 10:01 AM
Today is a day that many Minnesotans have been discussing for the last few weeks. As you read this, Minnesota’s carry and conceal gun law takes effect – even though it may be amended by the time you read this. Using other states’ guidelines as a reference point, Minnesota rushed into a gun law that left many people – including those surrounding the Vikings – in a sticky situation.
As the Minnesota Legislature met late into the night Tuesday in special session, the gun conceal and carry law was likely to be changed by today – its effective date. Under the wording of the law originally passed, anyone allowed to carry a firearm had to be informed both by signage and by personal statement that a firearm would be inadmissible on a given property. With a Minnesota Twins game scheduled for noon today Central Time, whether or not a revised law has been passed or not won’t matter. The Metrodome will be gun-free – or at least as far as anyone knows without metal detectors or pat searches.
VU has been told that Metrodome officials are prepared to live up to any extent of the law. As it stands today, from what a solid VU source with the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission has told us, signs will be posted at every entrance expressly prohibiting any firearms being brought into the stadium. In addition, public address announcements will run continuously saying the same thing. Under the current version of the conceal and carry law, both printed and spoken denials are needed. By the time many of you read this, that may well be changed. However, it doesn’t answer the simplest question – will there be compliance? By the time the Vikings play their first home preseason game, don’t be surprised to see metal detectors. They’re needed now more than ever. As much as those who feel the need to carry firearms, the odds of them leaving them unattended in their vehicles might be unlikely.
more (http://vikings.theinsiders.com/2/112929.html)
As the Minnesota Legislature met late into the night Tuesday in special session, the gun conceal and carry law was likely to be changed by today – its effective date. Under the wording of the law originally passed, anyone allowed to carry a firearm had to be informed both by signage and by personal statement that a firearm would be inadmissible on a given property. With a Minnesota Twins game scheduled for noon today Central Time, whether or not a revised law has been passed or not won’t matter. The Metrodome will be gun-free – or at least as far as anyone knows without metal detectors or pat searches.
VU has been told that Metrodome officials are prepared to live up to any extent of the law. As it stands today, from what a solid VU source with the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission has told us, signs will be posted at every entrance expressly prohibiting any firearms being brought into the stadium. In addition, public address announcements will run continuously saying the same thing. Under the current version of the conceal and carry law, both printed and spoken denials are needed. By the time many of you read this, that may well be changed. However, it doesn’t answer the simplest question – will there be compliance? By the time the Vikings play their first home preseason game, don’t be surprised to see metal detectors. They’re needed now more than ever. As much as those who feel the need to carry firearms, the odds of them leaving them unattended in their vehicles might be unlikely.
more (http://vikings.theinsiders.com/2/112929.html)