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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