Gun Permit Applications Spike in Dakota County in Wake of Newtown Shootings
Dakota County Sheriff Dave Bellows said Thursday that Minnesota’s permit-to-carry law allows some people with serious mental health issues to acquire firearms.
In the days after the Newtown, CT, shooting, Dakota County has seen a big uptick in applications for permits to carry a pistol. Dakota County Sheriff Dave Bellows said the county received 30 requests Monday and 26 Tuesday—about three times higher than the seven-10 applications processed in a typical day. "We have the staff to handle" the upsurge in applications, Bellows said. But what does worry him is the fact that some of the people applying for permits may have serious mental-health issues. And under current law, there's nothing he can do about it. “Since 2008, we’ve seen a significant increase from year to year, and this year is going to be the highest year ever,” Bellows said, predicting that the county would end up processing more …
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Clare Kennedy
10:50 am on Friday, December 28, 2012
Is there anything more pompous and disrespectful than calling your opponent one of the "sheeple"? Seriously. It's worth pointing out that all of the gun deaths we've had in Burnsville over the last two years were perpetrated by men who had no criminal record and legal rights to gun ownership. Two shot their friends in the head, point blank, because they were playing a game. One got angry and … more ›