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control the possible abuses in those industries. In light of the <br /> important governmental interests furthered by the regulatory <br /> inspection of pawnshop records, and the limited threat these <br /> inspections pose to the reasonable expectations of privacy of <br /> businessmen choosing to enter this closely regulated business, we <br /> conclude that [the Texas statute] does not authorize searches in <br /> violation of. . . the Fourth Amendment. <br /> E. Deadly Weapon Prohibition <br /> An ordinance providing that no deadly weapons can be bought or sold by a <br /> pawnbroker as a condition of licensure has been upheld. See Elsner <br /> Brothers v. Hawkins, 113 Va. 47, 73 S.E. 479 (1912). Local authority to <br /> do so in Minnesota, however, may be preempted. Minnesota Statues <br /> Section 633 (1994) provides: <br /> The legislature preempts all authority of a home rule charter or <br /> statutory city including a city of the first class, county, town, <br /> municipal corporation, or other governmental subdivision, or any of <br /> their instrumentalities, to regulate firearms, ammunition, or their <br /> respective components to the complete exclusion of any order, <br /> ordinance or regulation by them except that: (a) a governmental <br /> subdivision may regulate the discharge of firearms; and (b) a <br /> governmental subdivision may adopt regulations identical to state <br /> law. Local regulations inconsistent with this section are void. <br /> Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Section 471.635 (1994), however, a city <br /> could treat any pawnshop that sells firearms as a gun shop and zone it <br /> accordingly. Minnesota Statutes Section 471.635 provides: <br /> Notwithstanding section 471.633, a governmental subdivision may <br /> regulate by reasonable, nondiscriminatory, and nonarbitrary zoning <br /> ordinances, the location of businesses where firearms are sold by a <br /> firearms dealer. <br /> 410 <br /> 8 <br />