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NORTHWEST ASSOCIATED CONSULTANTS, INC. <br />5775 Wayzata Boulevard, Suite 555, St. Louis Park, MN 55416 <br />Telephone: .952.595.9636 Facsimile: 952.595.9837 planners©nacplanning .corn <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Little Canada Mayor and City Council <br />FROM: Stephen Grittman <br />DATE: July 22, 2004 <br />RE: Little Canada — Firearms Sales — Kennedy Arms <br />FILE NO: 759.09 — 04.21 <br />Background and Analysis <br />The City has been approached by an applicant for a Federal Firearms Dealer License in <br />order to open and operate a retail store that primarily sells and services firearms and <br />ammunition. The applicant has argued that he is a sporting goods store, but his <br />application illustrates only retail sales and display of firearms, ammunition, and a shell <br />reloading service. <br />The City's zoning ordinance lists sporting goods stores as a Permitted Use in the Business <br />Districts, but does not specifically list firearms or gun sales. The City has allowed firearms <br />sales as a accessory use or incidental activity of broader sporting goods stores or second <br />hand goods stores, such as the existing Joe's Sporting Goods on County Road B and <br />Lincoln Pawn on Rice Street. City staff has interpreted "Sporting Goods" stores to be more <br />broadly based than firearms alone. <br />Staff has conducted research on this issue in three general areas: (1) Treatment of <br />firearms sales in neighboring communities; (2) Issues recommended to be required of any <br />such store by the Ramsey County Sheriffs Department; and (3) Land Use issues in <br />regulation of firearms stores. The research is attached for your review, and is summarized <br />below: <br />1. Neighboring Communities. <br />