...rights supporters moved one big step closer Wednesday to requiring state sheriffs to give handgun permits to most law-abiding adults who seek them. The House attached the proposal to an innocuous Department of Natural Resources bill and passed...

...The law makes Minnesota the 35th state to require sheriffs to issue handgun permits to most mentally competent, law-abiding adults. More citizens will be able to get the permits, but only if they are at least 21, have had a background check...

...recent school shootings show, we need to reduce gun violence in a variety of ways, while recognizing the rights of law-abiding adult gun owners,'' Lillehaug said. He said the Senate-passed measures were ''common-sense ideas'' supported...

...for schools and focus transportation spending on new highways and bridges. He also said he'd push to allow most law-abiding adults who pass a background check to get handgun permits, support a measure requiring women to wait 24 hours to get an...

...His signature made Minnesota the 35th state to adopt a law requiring sheriffs to give handgun permits to most law-abiding adults who seek them. "Today is a wonderful day in that honest, law-abiding citizens will be able to protect themselves...