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The legality of carrying concealed firearms at protests in Minnesota, including the role of state permits and federal enforcement.
is generally lawful with a state permit, but the picture at protests is more complicated: federal and state actors can and have asserted limits, and Minnesota law includes provisions that allow author...
does not appear to have a plain‑language statute that expressly bans carrying ; the principal statutory framework governs permits to carry and where certain posted or government‑designated locations m...
law carves out a set of place-based limits on where even a valid permit holder may carry a handgun: most prominently and many state buildings in the Capitol area, state correctional facilities and sta...
Two recent decisions and secondary reporting touch on how the state’s weapons statutes, including (permit-to-carry and related “carrying in public” rules), apply in public settings, but there is no cl...
sheriffs and the have not, in the reporting provided, issued a single uniform new legal advisory specifically telling Minnesotans whether they may or may not carry firearms to protests; instead the gu...
is legally fraught: available reporting shows Minnesota permit-holders are generally allowed to carry in public and many gun-rights advocates and local experts say exercising First and rights together...
’s permit-to-carry statute requires a permit holder, upon a peace officer’s request, to disclose whether they are carrying a firearm () and courts have read that requirement alongside companion statut...
requires a Permit to Carry for public possession of a handgun, and that permit covers both concealed and open carry — the statute and state guidance do not require a handgun to be visible, nor do they...