Last month, the Minnesota Supreme Court reversed a felony conviction holding that air-powered BB guns not firearms for purposes of the possession of firearms statute. Today, the Minnesota Court of Appeals in Lue Yang followed the Supreme Court, extending the reasonable and rational definition of a firearm to the ‘Ineligible Persons’ firearm statute, prohibiting the possession of guns for certain people, and reversed a conviction for the possession of a BB gun.
Although this decision is the Court of Appeals following the Supreme Court decision from last month, I felt it worthy of making another post about the long overdue and rational definition of a firearm finally being applied.
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Minnesota Firearm Lawyer Coley Grostyan is a criminal defense attorney who represents the accused, including those charged with illegal possession of firearms.