Loud Pack gang members allegedly burglarize U.S. flag-flying Mpls homes in search of guns

Categories: Crime, Gangs, Guns
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Can you really argue with their logic?
If you're on the hunt to heist guns, how would you figure out which homes to target?

SEE ALSO: Alleged Young 'n Thuggin' clique leader gets seven years on drug charge

According to the logic allegedly employed by the Loud Pack north Minneapolis street gang, the answer is to look for the ones with American flags in their front yards.

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NRA-certified firearm safety instructor accidentally shoots himself

Categories: Guns
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A .38 Special made a special delivery right into its owner's finger when it went off while he played with it.
For the second time this month, we have occasion to say the following: If this guy is a model of gun safety, we'd hate to be around the reckless ones.

SEE ALSO: Pine County Sheriff's refusal to enforce new gun regulations has at least one legislative supporter

Just a couple weeks after a firearm safety teacher accidentally fired a gun in a Stillwater school just before teaching class, an NRA-certified instructor from rural Stockman, Minnesota ended up in the hospital after he accidentally shot himself in the hand while he was jacking around with his gun.

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Kluwe on lawmaker who politicized Boston manhunt: He should be removed from office

Categories: Chris Kluwe, Guns
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Bell (left) thinks more guns = more safety. Kluwe disagrees.
Though he made a name for himself with his gay rights advocacy, Vikings punter Chris Kluwe isn't a one-issue pony.

SEE ALSO: Chris Kluwe named Twin Cities PRIDE Grand Marshal

Today, he blasted an Arkansas lawmaker who used the manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects to make an anti-gun control point for his "stunning lack of empathy."

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Gun safety instructor accidentally fired handgun inside Stillwater school just before class began

Categories: Guns
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"Do as I say, not as I do, kids!"
If the instructor of the firearms class offered at Stillwater's Salem Lutheran School is a model of gun safety, we'd hate to be around the reckless folks.

SEE ALSO: MNGOP Rep. Tony Cornish says Jesus would pack heat if he were alive today

That's because the 76-year-old teacher and Cottage Grove resident could face charges after accidentally firing a .45-caliber just before last Thursday's class began.

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Bob Davis offers up non-apology for outrageous Newtown comments [AUDIO]

Categories: Guns, Media
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Davis and Emmer: Talking tough about Newtown victims from the comfort of their radio studio.
:::: UPDATE :::: Atomic Data pulls support from Davis & Emmer show following Davis's Newtown remarks

This morning, Bob Davis addressed the firestorm created with callous comments he made about victims of gun violence during last Friday's Davis & Emmer show.

THE BACKSTORY: Bob Davis, on Davis & Emmer show, says Newtown shooting victims can "go to hell" [AUDIO]

During that show, Davis, talking about how some people affected by December's mass school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, have become gun control advocates, said, "I would stand in front of them all, and tell them, 'Go to hell.'"

But Davis didn't exactly apologize today. Instead, he characterized his comment as "an emotional predecessor to a thought which can and will find a more refined expression by me and others in the future, I guarantee you."

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Bob Davis, on Davis & Emmer show, says Newtown shooting victims can "go to hell" [AUDIO]

Categories: Guns, Media
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Emmer: Pro-gun control Newtown families are "pawns" of "political charades."
Bob Davis had some heinous things to say to victims of those impacted by gun violence during Friday's installment of AM 1130's Davis & Emmer show.

:::: UPDATES ::::
-- Bob Davis offers up non-apology for outrageous Newtown comments [AUDIO]
-- Atomic Data pulls support from Davis & Emmer show following Davis's Newtown remarks

When the topic turned to how some of those affected by December's mass school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, have become gun control advocates, Davis said, "I would stand in front of them all, and tell them, 'Go to hell.'"

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Minnesota cafe offers discounts for gun owners on "conceal and carry" Thursdays

Categories: Guns
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Lars Plougmann
Take the slash out of the gun symbol and you have Langtry Cafe's policy: Guns welcome.
While legislators locally and nationally debate gun control, a diner in the Minnesota town of Brownsdale is taking its own stance on the second amendment. At the Langtry Cafe, Thursdays are conceal and carry day.

See Also:
- Minnesota lawmakers propose gun control legislation [VIDEO]
- Pro-gun group's plan to crash Breakfast with Gary Schiff event megafails
- Rep. Tony Cornish wants to bring "craziest gun law in America" to Minnesota



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NRA report contains fictional passage about a 2010 school shooting in Hastings

Categories: Guns
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A new NRA report contains at least one passage of fiction.
With so many mass shootings to pick from, you wouldn't think the National Rifle Association would need to make them up. But that's exactly what they did in their recently released 225-page school security plan.

The plan calls for every school to have an armed police officers, security guards, or staff member. It also cities the 2010 school shooting in Hastings to make a case that classroom windows should be done away with.

SEE ALSO: MNGOP Rep. Tony Cornish says Jesus would pack heat if he were alive today

But there's a small problem -- that 2010 Hastings school shooting never happened.

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Report of shooting at New Prague Middle School turns out to be unfounded [UPDATES]

Categories: Education, Guns
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New Prague Middle School
-- Updates at bottom of post --

Reports are circulating this morning about a possible school shooting at the New Prague Middle School.

UPDATE: New Prague Middle School evacuated again following bomb threat

Details remain scant but WCCO reports that "an ambulance staging area was being set up" and that the school "has been put on 'code red.'"

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Gov. Dayton calls death of gun background checks bill "very disappointing," blasts NRA

Categories: Guns, Mark Dayton
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Dayton thinks Cornish is suffering from a case of "they took 'er guns!" paranoia.
Last night, a bill calling for backgrounds checks on all firearm purchases in Minnesota died in a House committee, meaning any gun control legislation approved this legislative session will be watered down at best.

SEE ALSO: MNGOP Rep. Tony Cornish says Jesus would pack heat if he were alive today

That was good news to staunch gun rights advocates like Rep. Tony Cornish, R-Good Thunder -- Cornish actually wore a semi-automatic rifle pin and NRA tie to a hearing about gun violence last month -- but it came as a disappointment to gun control advocates like Gov. Mark Dayton.

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