Benton County, Minnesota, Sheriff Troy Heck posted a letter to Facebook over the weekend expressing his conviction that violent criminals will ignore new gun controls in much the same way as they ignore the old ones.
MN Gun Owners Caucus tweeted about Heck’s letter, written in response to questions about gun controls being pushed by Minnesota’s Democrat legislators.
Universal background checks and gun storage requirements are among the controls being considered, and Heck is concerned that law-abiding citizens will be impacted while criminals will not.
Heck wrote, in part, “In general, I have my doubts that layering additional requirements upon law-abiding gun owners is going to substantially impact the surges in violent crime experienced in recent months primarily in larger metropolitan areas. Even if enacted, violent criminals are going to disregard these new laws in the same manner that they disregard our current laws.”