Legislative Session number- 87

Bill Name: SF1388

Relating to firearms

ARTICLE 1 - PERMIT TO PURCHASE RENEWAL AND
BACKGROUND
CHECKS

Requiring the commissioner of human services to
report mental health
commitment information to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System
for the purpose of facilitating firearms background checks; creating a reporting
requirement; extending time period for renewal of permit to purchase a pistol
from a federally licensed dealer; providing for an annual background check;
requiring courts to report certain data to the National Instant Criminal
Background Check System for the purpose of firearms background checks; requiring
a report to the legislature

ARTICLE 2 - AUTHORITY TO SEIZE
WEAPONS

Clarifying and delimiting the authority of public officials to seize
and confiscate firearms

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
(je)