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."