ATF: Despite new Minnesota law, marijuana users can’t possess guns

ST. PAUL, Minn. (KVRR) – The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says regardless of the recent legalization of recreational marijuana in Minnesota, users of marijuana are still prohibited from shipping, transporting, receiving, or possessing firearms or ammunition. “Until marijuana is legalized federally, firearms owners and possessors should be mindful that it remains federally illegal to mix marijuana with firearms and ammunition,” according to the ATF Acting Special Agent in Charge Jeff Reed, of the St. Paul Field Division. “As regulators of the firearms industry and enforcers of firearms...