Fighting for Your Firearms Rights

One of the things I advertise and that is near and dear to my heart, is the protection of people’s firearm’s rights whenever possible. Recent events have created another wave of nation-wide legislation that may or may not address some of the very difficult problems we have with violence in this country. I don’t know how to solve that and I don’t know where to draw the line.

Hunting Tradition

I do, however, know this: there is no citizen in this state who is worse off for the love of the sport of hunting. As a kid, I chased rabbits and squirrels with a 22 rifle. Once I had the courage to use the old man’s 12 gauge, I went after grouse. The summer of my 15th birthday, I worked my skinny rear end off and, that fall, paid for a Remington BDL bolt action .270. In September I shot a bear with it; in November an eight-point buck. Through all of this, my dad was there, teaching me, encouraging me, admonishing me, and when that grouse happened to fly into my BBs, high-fiving me. I cannot possibly imagine how my life would have been without that bond. I also can’t imagine how different it would have been not sharing the duck blind or deer stand with my daughters when I finally became a father. It pains me to even think of it.

Gun Legislature

The tragedy of the current battle over guns is that, the proposed assault weapon bans aside, the only fix the legislature can think of that’s politically acceptable is to throw a massive “no gun” net over a greater and greater segment of the population. The anti-gun crowd thinks this is doing something so they’re happy (it’s not) and the NRA won’t comment on it because they live and die by “Keep the guns out of the hands of criminals.” The problem is, folks, if you define it right, sooner or later, everyone is a “criminal.” And then, everyone can’t hunt.

What breaks my heart about this is not the guy in Minneapolis who wants to drive around downtown with a 40 caliber under his seat. That’s a different issue. What I detest is taking a young man or woman, who is already having trouble with life but who has likely never ever, under any circumstances, considered using a firearm against a human being and removing from them the one bond with family and friends they might have had – the deer camp, the duck blind, the pheasant slough. Heartbreaking.

Getting Back Your Firearms

The good news is that, in Minnesota, it is possible to get your firearms rights back. It’s not easy and it’s not automatic but it can be done. (I haven’t been unsuccessful yet, but I also don’t take cases unless I believe in them.) The best strategy, of course, is to avoid a conviction for anything that would have this result. Sometimes that’s not possible but oftentimes, with the right lawyer, it is. Call me today to fight for your firearm rights.