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STATEMENT: Rep. Cornish on bill requiring criminal background checks on all gun sales in Minnesota

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Minnesota House Public Safety and Crime Prevention Policy and Finance Chair Tony Cornish (R-Vernon Center) issued the following statement regarding the introduction of a bill that would require criminal background checks on all gun sales in Minnesota.

 

"In most every instance, when lawbreakers use a gun in a crime they have secured that gun through borrowing, burglary, or theft – not from a gun show purchase or from private sales. This universal background check proposal is nothing more than a scare tactic to make it appear that, if approved, gun crimes are going to disappear.  Why would we pass a law that makes it more difficult to get guns when it's not proven that it will reduce any crime?

 

When you take into account the lack of evidence, a short legislative session, and overwhelming approval of gun ownership in this state, I have no reason to believe that Minnesota is in the mood for more gun control discussions at the legislature."