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MN: Man Cited For Carrying AK-47 Now Suing City, Says Rights Violated
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Tyler Gottwalt is now suing the city of St. Cloud. According to the lawsuit, Gottwalt was walking in the city on November 17, 2014 with a rifle on his back. Police confronted him and ultimately he was cited for carrying his weapon in public, but Gottwalt's lawyer says the St. Cloud ordinance is in conflict with both state statute and the second amendment.
"When a state statute preempts any other statute, including ordinances, that state statute is supreme," said Attorney Kenneth Udoibok.
Gottwalt said he expected police to stop him but only to see his permit.
"I open carry my handguns," he said Thursday. "I've refrained from that with rifles now."
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jdege
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1. The carry permit does allow carry of long guns. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=624.7181 2. And the state preemption statute covers all firearms. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=471.633 |
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I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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