Dakota County Sheriff Bellows Calls for Ban on High-Capacity Assault Weapons
Also, Sen. Al Franken will be at Eagan's Dakota Hills Middle School on Monday to discuss school safety.
Follow Inver Grove Heights Patch on Twitter | Like us on Facebook | Sign up for our free newsletter Dakota County Sheriff Dave Bellows said Friday that he supports a ban on the sale of high-capacity assault weapons. "I believe in the second amendment,” Bellows told Patch on Friday morning, three weeks to the day after the Newtown, Conn., massacre in which 20 children were killed. “I’ve signed, over the years, 9,000 permits to carry" firearms. “But does the second amendment extend all the way to assault weapons and high-capacity magazines?" Bellows asked. "I don’t think it does.” On a separate but related note, Sen. Al Franken announced Friday that he will be at Eagan's Dakota Hills Middle School on Monday to meet "with several Minnesota …
Mark Lowry
12:16 pm on Sunday, January 6, 2013
Those that want to restrict gun ownership and are focused on any rifle at all have there attention grossly missplaced. As the previous poster above stated, rifles account for an extrely small portion of gun crime, scary black rifles an even small portion still. This is an emotional, knee jerk reaction to a trrinle incident but logic must prevail to acomplish meaningfull change. Arming teachers … more ›