Legislative Session number- 87

Bill Name: SF1357

2E Relating to firearms

ARTICLE 1 - PERMIT TO PURCHASE RENEWAL AND BACKGROUND
CHECKS

Making optional a chief of police or sheriff effort to check other
available state and local record-keeping systems

ARTICLE 2 - AUTHORITY TO
SEIZE WEAPONS

Clarifying application of seizure and confiscation to be
applicable during state of emergencies proclaimed by the governor, authorizing
law enforcement to disarm individuals without a warrant, prohibiting
governmental entity or individual curtailment of firearms and related
ammunition, authorizing relief for aggrieved individuals

ARTICLE 3 -
SELF-DEFENSE; USE OF FORCE

"Defense of Dwelling and Person Act of 2011";
clarifying the use of force in defense of home and person (castle doctrine);
defining certain terms; codifying and extending Minnesota's self-defense and
defense of home laws; eliminating the common law duty to retreat in cases of
self defense outside the home; expanding the boundaries of dwelling for purposes
of self-defense; creating a presumption in the case of a person entering a
dwelling or occupied vehicle by stealth or force; extending the rights available
to a person in that person's dwelling to a person defending against entry of
that person's occupied vehicle

ARTICLE 4 - RECOGNITION OF OTHER STATES'
PERMITS TO CARRY

Providing for the recognition by Minnesota of other states'
permits to carry a pistol within and under the laws of Minnesota; specifying
certain duties of the commissioner of public safety; prohibiting application to
carry a pistol under terms of a carry permit or license by another state
(ra)