Applications for permits to purchase or carry firearms in, and around, Minnesota’s Twin Cities spiked in January, just days before Border Czar Tom Homan announced that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would begin to withdraw its Operation Metro Surge federal immigration agents from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.
“Twin Cities gun sales have seen their largest year-over-year leap since the pandemic, with some cities experiencing double or even triple the demand compared to the same time last year,” according to analysis of city and county data by The Minnesota Star Tribune published Friday.
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