verslagen1 wrote on 10/22/19 at 08:27:15:
I can understand how translating common language to legalese can confound laymen.
"translating common language to legalese", is not required.
"legalese' is designed to benefit lawyers, simply because they can, 'fight over', what the words mean,
and BOTH get paid.Something written in understandable English.
Is very hard to be interpreted differently, than what it means.
"...What was your intent in writing the law and how was it F'd up?..."That was 33/35 Years ago ! Did not keep my notes, and do not know what the MN law today requires as to how a FFL Store displays/stores firearms.
If I were to open another gun shop, and get another FFL, I would know.
"intent" was stopping the, 'Smash and Grabs'.
Which was something that was widely adopted, by many other, 'high risk/valuable object stores'.
That was putting, steel/concrete cylinders/barriers in front of glass store fronts, spaced so that a car could not drive through.
And, installing bars/grids, on windows, which was decided no wider than a 12" opening.
Changes,
(by politicians/staff/etc), I remember were the size of the grids for the bars.
They were made much smaller, and were defined in infinitesimal detail. As to stop a adult from breaking the glass, then sending in a child to hand things out.
The 'Posts/Barriers', were defined in infinitesimal detail.
Gee, what part of a Car/Truck can not drive through
could someone NOT understand ?And the beauty part, was the ADDING, of ALL Guns Must be secured by a cable, through the trigger guard, and the cable locked to the floor, or other unmovable object. (Then the floor/object, was defined in infinitesimal detail)
Or if just Long Guns were cabled. Then the the handguns must be moved each night, and placed in a secure Safe overnight.
(Then the safe, was defined in infinitesimal detail)
Today many, valuable goods, ground floor stores, have barriers in front of possible openings. Some have bars in windows.
I know it has been at least 20 Years since I have seen a gun shop that has, ANY, firearms, Cabled.
Don't know what they do at night.
Don't care what the Law, (
that is not being followed), is.
Do Know, politicians/Staff/etc, can and DO, F k the writing of a law, they know NOTHING about.