Minnesota 
  updated 11/16/05

  - Section 609.02 Definitions. 
   Subdivision 6. Dangerous weapon.  "Dangerous weapon" means 
 any firearm, whether loaded or unloaded, or any device designed 
 as a weapon and capable of producing death or great bodily harm, 
 any combustible or flammable liquid or other device or 
 instrumentality that, in the manner it is used or intended to be 
 used, is calculated or likely to produce death or great bodily 
 harm, or any fire that is used to produce death or great bodily 
 harm. 


- Section 609.66. Dangerous weapons. 
     Subdivision 1.
   Acts prohibited. Whoever does any of the following is
   guilty of a crime... (4) manufactures, transfers, or 
   possesses metal knuckles or a switch blade knife opening 
   automatically; or 
    (5) possesses any other dangerous article or substance 
   for the purpose of being used unlawfully as a weapon 
   against another...

    Subdivision 1c.    Felony; furnishing a dangerous weapon.  
 Whoever recklessly furnishes a person with a dangerous weapon in 
 conscious disregard of a known substantial risk that the object 
 will be possessed or used in furtherance of a felony crime of 
 violence is guilty of a felony... 

    Subdivision 1d.    Possession on school property... whoever 
 possesses, stores, or keeps a dangerous weapon or uses or 
 brandishes a replica firearm or a BB gun while knowingly on 
 school property is guilty of a felony... [exception for gun 
 and knife shows held on school property]

    Subdivision 1g.    Felony; possession in courthouse or certain 
 state buildings.  (a) A person who commits either of the 
 following acts is guilty of a felony...
    (1) possesses a dangerous weapon, ammunition, or explosives 
 within any courthouse complex; or 
    (2) possesses a dangerous weapon, ammunition, or explosives 
 in any state building within the Capitol Area described in 
 chapter 15B, other than the National Guard Armory. 


   Subdivision 2. Exceptions. Nothing in this section
   prohibits the possession of the articles mentioned by
   museums or collectors of art or for other lawful purposes
   of public exhibition.



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