Gun lobby flexing in greater Minnesota
GRAND RAPIDS, ITASCA COUNTY — Here’s how the gun rights lobby is shrewdly working to shore up local opposition to gun control bills making their way through the DFL-majority Legislature.
Last month, newly elected Itasca County Board member John Johnson requested that a pro-Second Amendment resolution be added to the consent agenda. That was on a Saturday. The meeting was on Tuesday.
The consent agenda is typically used for ordinary, small-bore issues — an equipment purchase needed, an employee retiring, an undisputed land transaction, etc.
Not resolutions that make broad statements about one of the most polarizing political issues of the past half century.