Post by Logan on May 7, 2016 3:58:08 GMT -6
Young Minnesotans may think mobile telephone cases that look like guns are fun, but state legislators are close to banning them.
“Someday, some kid is going to hold up a cell phone case and somebody … is going to die,” Sen. Ron Latz, D-St. Louis Park, said Wednesday before senators unanimously voted to forbid the cases.
Latz said the cases easily can be mistaken for real guns and a law enforcement officer or another armed person could shoot in self-defense.
“It is a dead-ringer to a pistol,” Latz said.
Long-time sheriff and deputy Sen. Bill Ingebrigtsen, R-Alexandria, agreed. He said he could see someone walking down the street “going into their back pocket. … If this were pulled out at an opportune time, it puts them and, it seems to me, a lot of people at risk.”
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