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Lawmakers seek to expand self-defense rights Associated Press ST. PAUL - Several Republican lawmakers are introducing legislation to expand the right of citizens to use deadly force against attackers. Court rulings in Minnesota have already recognized what's known as the Castle Doctrine, which is the notion that a person's home is their castle and they have a right to defend it against an imminent threat. But Representative Tony Cornish and Sen. Pat Pariseau want to enshrine that right in state law. They also want a broader definition of castle that includes personal vehicles, businesses and even public places. The lawmakers...

<p>On the eve of Minnesota's entry into a new era of expanded handgun rights, Republican leaders pushed Tuesday for a one-word change in the rules for barring legal pistol-packers from private property.</p> <p>But DFLers rejected the fix as more than a minor technical correction and repeated their calls to repeal -- lock, stock and barrel -- the law that will make permits to carry handguns in public available to many more people.</p>

[Fcalerts-list] Minnesota Anti-Gun Groups Lose Names May 5 Update -- The Minnesota Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance (GOCRA) just took exclusive ownership of the corporate names of the two biggest anti-gun groups in the state: Citizens for a Safer Minnesota and Citizens for a Safer Minnesota Education Fund. Not only are those wonderful names for new organizations that would truly make Minnesota safer -- by enlarging gun rights, not destroying them -- the anti-gunners who spent a lot of time, money and energy building up those names can no longer use them. Nor can they use signs, stationery or...