SF 1408

as introduced - 80th Legislature (1997 - 1998) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to public safety; requiring the 
  1.3             superintendent of the bureau of criminal apprehension 
  1.4             to establish a drugfire ballistic tracking system; 
  1.5             authorizing the city of Minneapolis to require firearm 
  1.6             dealers to supply spent bullets for new weapons; 
  1.7             authorizing the city of Minneapolis to disallow 
  1.8             issuance of firearm permits to transfer or to carry 
  1.9             for a period of time after conviction of a weapons 
  1.10            offense; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota 
  1.11            Statutes, chapter 299C. 
  1.12  BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.13     Section 1.  [299C.147] [BALLISTIC TRACKING SYSTEM; 
  1.14  DATABASE.] 
  1.15     Subdivision 1.  [DATABASE.] The superintendent of the 
  1.16  bureau of criminal apprehension shall develop a database 
  1.17  designed to allow tracking of spent bullets associated with 
  1.18  crimes to specific weapons.  The superintendent shall model the 
  1.19  database on the Federal Bureau of Investigation drugfire system 
  1.20  that is a national ballistic tracking system.  The bureau of 
  1.21  criminal apprehension tracking system shall store the data 
  1.22  derived from firing weapons under subdivision 2 in an electronic 
  1.23  format that: 
  1.24     (1) allows retrieval for purposes of matching spent bullet 
  1.25  data stored in electronic form in the database against bullets 
  1.26  retrieved from crime scenes; and 
  1.27     (2) allows for information sharing between the Federal 
  1.28  Bureau of Investigation drugfire system and the bureau of 
  2.1   criminal apprehension ballistic tracking system for purposes of 
  2.2   cross-jurisdictional investigation of crimes involving pistols 
  2.3   or semi-automatic military-style assault weapons. 
  2.4      Subd. 2.  [COORDINATION OF WEAPON FIRING.] The 
  2.5   superintendent of the bureau of criminal apprehension shall also 
  2.6   coordinate a system with local law enforcement agencies in a 
  2.7   jurisdiction where firearm dealers, as defined in section 
  2.8   624.7161, subdivision 1, are required under section 2 to take 
  2.9   all pistols and semi-automatic military-style assault weapons 
  2.10  they have for sale to a facility for firing.  The superintendent 
  2.11  shall provide firearm dealers with the option of supplying spent 
  2.12  bullets at either a facility managed by the bureau or at 
  2.13  designated facilities managed by local law enforcement agencies. 
  2.14     Sec. 2.  [CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS; BALLISTIC TRACKING SYSTEM; 
  2.15  INELIGIBILITY FOR FIREARM TRANSFERS.] 
  2.16     Subdivision 1.  [SPENT BULLET FACILITY.] In the city of 
  2.17  Minneapolis, firearm dealers, as defined in Minnesota Statutes, 
  2.18  section 624.7161, subdivision 1, shall take each pistol to the 
  2.19  bureau of criminal apprehension spent bullet facility or a 
  2.20  designated law enforcement agency spent bullet facility.  At the 
  2.21  chosen facility, each weapon will be fired for the purpose of 
  2.22  electronically storing bullet rifling for a later match against 
  2.23  bullets used in crimes. 
  2.24     Subd. 2.  [INELIGIBILITY FOR FIREARM TRANSFER AND CARRY 
  2.25  PERMITS.] Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 624.7131, 
  2.26  subdivision 12; 624.7132, subdivision 16; or 624.717, in the 
  2.27  city of Minneapolis the following persons shall not be entitled 
  2.28  to a permit to transfer a pistol under Minnesota Statutes, 
  2.29  section 624.7131, or a permit to carry under Minnesota Statutes, 
  2.30  section 624.714: 
  2.31     (1) a person who has been convicted of violating Minnesota 
  2.32  Statutes, section 624.7131, unless three years have elapsed 
  2.33  since the person has been restored to civil rights; and 
  2.34     (2) a person who has been convicted of violating Minnesota 
  2.35  Statutes, section 624.714, unless three years have elapsed since 
  2.36  the person has been restored to civil rights. 
  3.1      Sec. 3.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  3.2      Section 2 is effective the day after the city of 
  3.3   Minneapolis complies with Minnesota Statutes, section 645.021, 
  3.4   subdivision 3.