By Dave Workman
Editor-in-Chief
Minneapolis, Minn., Mayor Jacob Frey has ignored the state’s preemption law and signed an ordinance banning so-called “assault-style weapons,” “large-capacity magazines” and “ghost guns,” and according to published reports, the city believes it will withstand legal challenge.
According to WCCO, a similar ordinance adopted last year in St. Paul is already being challenged in court by the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus.
Frey is perhaps best known for his remarks telling ICE agents to “get the f— out of Minneapolis” following fatal shootings earlier this year during protests against immigration enforcement actions.
CBS News quoted Frey, who declared during a press briefing Wednesday, “The concept of gun violence — it is not abstract. It’s not theoretical. It has a real impact on families in our city, and because it impacts the people that we represent, our family members that we care deeply about, we at the city level should have the ability to act affirmatively to prevent these kinds of unnecessary deaths from happening in the future.”
This comes after gun control proponents have been pressuring state lawmakers to move gun control legislation as the adjournment looms. Gov. Tim Walz has been pushing gun control since his unsuccessful run for the vice presidency.
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Frey, a 2009 transplant from Virginia, came to Minneapolis following his cum laude graduation from the Villanova University School of Law and joined the law firm Faegre & Benson to practice civil rights law. He later joined the law firm Halunen & Associates., according to Wikipedia.
Rob Doar at the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, was quoted by CBS News, anticipating a lawsuit against the Minneapolis ordinance. Minnesota is one of more than 40 states with such preemption statutes, placing sole authority for gun regulation with the state legislature.
Minneapolis was the scene last August of the Annunciation church and school shooting which left two students dead and some 30 other people injured.
