They give cops nightmares — and now St. Paul is considering a ban on brandishing realistic toy guns in public.Sorry, Billy. You'll just need to ride that horse...I mean, bike outta here. If Lite Brite Mooninites can send waves of panic through officialdom, well, you, you're just gonna make some folks 'round here wet themselves.
And this is my "good" modern day scenario. In the alternate ending, the unleashed dog is the first to get it, and Billy, well, Billy should have never "went for his waistband."
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It looks like Billy is trying to lasso the fence post.
This is not a wise move as I found out once in my youth. If you succeed and the rope becomes tangled amongst the hardware of the bike...well...I found that having a bike jerked out from under you when riding 15 mph or so on a gravel driveway is not exactly fun.
Plus he isn't wearing a helmet.
It's amazing we've lived to tell about such things.
Helmet? When I was doing these things as a kid you wouldn't dare show up with a helmet. The other kids would have been tempted to see how well it worked.
When I was growing up getting it was just kids being kids. Getting bumps bruises and even a broken arm at least once was the norm.
Sorta taught us things like "don't take a shower with the hair dryer"
Sorry to go off topic.
You're exactly ON topic, Vinnie.
Minn. Stat. 624.7181 RIFLES AND SHOTGUNS IN PUBLIC PLACES.
Subd. 2. Penalties. Whoever carries a BB gun, rifle, or shotgun on or about the person in a public place is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
Minn. Stat. 471.633 FIREARMS.
The legislature preempts all authority of a home rule charter or statutory city including a city
of the first class, county, town, municipal corporation, or other governmental subdivision, or any
of their instrumentalities, to regulate firearms, ammunition, or their respective components to the
complete exclusion of any order, ordinance or regulation by them except that:
(a) a governmental subdivision may regulate the discharge of firearms; and
(b) a governmental subdivision may adopt regulations identical to state law.
Local regulation inconsistent with this section is void.
I didn't see toys or replicas covered in the preemption statute, jdege, so it wouldn't surprise me if the ordinance is "legal."
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