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FROM (TUE) 1.20'93 14:21/ST. I4:20/N0. S700000911 ?• 2 <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: <br />FROM; <br />DATE: <br />Qiy of Orono; Liz Van Zomeren <br />Thomas <br />January 20, 1998 <br />RE: Regulation, by zoning, of the location of businesses where firearms arc sold by <br />a firearms dealer. <br />The Minnesota Legislature, 1985 removed from municipalities the power to regulate firearms <br />except for their discharge. Minn Siai. 471.633. (attached.) <br />By Minn. Stat. 471.635, the Legislature in 1993 provided that cities may <br />“regulate by reasonable, nondiscriminatory, and nonarbitrary zoning ordinances, the <br />location of businesses where firearms arc sold by a firearms dealer. For the purposes <br />of this section, a firearms dealer is a person who is federally licensed to sell firearms <br />and a govcrmncnial subdivision is an entity described in sections 471.633 and <br />471.634. <br />Accordingly, 1 conclude that the City of Orono may address by zoning ordinance the locaUon <br />of businesses where firearms are sold by a firearms dealer. Such Zoning requirements would <br />need to meet the statutory requirements, and would likely need to "grandfather" in existing <br />-ders. eWen the longuegc of 471.633,1 do not beUeve that the City eould prohibit the sale <br />mmunition per sc. but could zone the location of business where firearms dealers sell <br />.imunition.