Dakota County Sheriff Dave Bellows: Ban High-Capacity Assault Weapons
Also, Sen. Al Franken will be at Dakota County school on Monday to discuss school safety.
Dakota County Sheriff Dave Bellows said yesterday that he supports a ban on the sale of high-capacity assault weapons. "I believe in the second amendment,” Bellows told Patch Friday morning, three weeks to the day after the Newtown, CT, 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 educators, child advocates, and school-safety officials to discuss ongoing efforts to improve school …
Concerned citizen
1:07 pm on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Actually he's an elected Sheriff I do believe so him expressing his opinions is good I think. He signed my permit to carry also but now he wants to take away the gun I carry and pretty much any hand gun I could carry cause the laws that are being proposed would ban revolvers and semi auto's with 10 or more capacity. So the next time he's up for election I think I might have to look to his … more ›