Minnesota Sheriff Ordered By Court to Follow CCW Law

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http://www.gunweek.com/0910issue/minnesota0910.html

As right-to-carry and shall-issue concealed carry laws have been enacted across many states, high-ranking lawmen have not always followed the letter of these laws, but now a judge in Minnesota has ordered at least one county sheriff to toe the line.

Anoka County Sheriff Bruce Andersohn had insisted that residents drive to the Sheriff’s Department office to pick up their newly-issued concealed pistol licenses (CPL). That came to a halt when Anoka County resident James R. Evenson and St. Louis Park attorney David Gross went to court and forced Andersohn to start mailing the CPLs as provided by the state’s new shall-issue law. It was a law Gross helped author, so he is intimately familiar with its requirements.

[MrBenchley]

1. Gee, the RKBA crowd has just the nicest friends....

"Did Lott lie specifically about the 1997 survey? Hmmm -- let's be charitable. So far, he's managed to turn up one person who claims to have been interviewed for it. In an astonishing convergence of interests, that person turns out to be a former National Rifle Association board member named David Gross. Holy 50 caliber magnum revolver! In addition to being a founder of a pro-gun group that shares Lott's goal of letting citizens carry concealed handguns ("Concealed Carry Reform, NOW!"), Gross last year tried to steal the name of Minnesota's leading gun control organization, Citizens for a Safer Minnesota."

http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/03/02/25_Lott.html

"One of the biggest proponents of the law, David Gross of St. Louis Park, has a permit from Florida. He told the Star Tribune that he had pointed his gun at a pesky neighbor. (That’s a felony.) “It worked – they moved,” he is quoted as saying."

http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg21600.html

"“Although he lives in a virtually crime-free neighborhood, Gross’ house is filled with guns, an alarm system and two dogs.  But don’t dare ask him what he’s afraid of. 
Why do you value free speech?” he said, raising his voice.  “Why do you need the U.S. Constitution?  You are asking the wrong question,” he screamed.  “Ask the guy who wants to rob my house if there’s anything in here he’s willing to die for!”
Gross’ dog starts to whimper.  “I’m sorry I got so loud,” he said.  “I don’t want to be arrogant, but I don’t suffer fools gladly.”  Thank God he doesn’t want to be arrogant.  He just wants to shoot people who aren’t breaking into his home, getting past the alarms and the dogs. 
The article goes on to explain that Gross was fired from his job as a city attorney when he opposed the city’s gun buy-back program.  When he later won his job back, he decided to quit when he was told he couldn’t carry his gun to work in City Hall.
Gross first got his permit when he was threatened by an immigrant who blamed Gross for his prison sentence.  Since then the only things he has used his gun for are to force a neighbor to move and to shoot a deer eating his raspberries.  The deer was shot with a .357 magnum, a gun that could shoot right through the deer, through a neighbor’s wall and still have enough momentum to kill an innocent victim.  Gross claims that St Louis Park city law allows him to dispose of pests in a safe manner, an interpretation disputed by the chief of police of that suburb."

http://www.ubcmn.org/sermon20030601.htm