Thanks Pat, made me laugh a bit today!

I don’t have an opinion on the issue, but I hosted some friends from Iowa a few weeks ago and they thought the law was ridiculous and outdated. They’re so used to Minnesota being “ahead” of Iowa in so many ways, that they were really shocked to find out that was the law here.
However, you can also buy hard liquor at grocery stores, Walmarts, etc. in Iowa; something you definitely can’t do here.

What?!? Liquor stores open on Sunday? What’s next — car dealerships open on Sunday, too?
I’ve always thought it was a stupid law. Let the individual store owner or municipality (or auto dealer) decide whether they should sell alcohol or vehicles on Sunday.

seriously, Sunday sales are not that big of deal.

Thanks Pat for makeing me laugh today!!

Don’t have a strong opinion either way, but if legislation passes for liquor sales on Sunday, I’m fine with that. If tobacco can sold and dining establishments can serve alcohol on Sundays, why not open it up?

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It’s just a way for the state to get more revenue monies. I lived in Pennsylvania and Maryland. PA has Blue Laws, Monday through Saturday, ending at 10PM. Spirits and wine sales can only be purchased via Spirit and Wine “STATE” Stores, uniform pricing throughout the state, county taxes are the only variable. To purchase beer a person must go to a restaurant, bar, bottle shop, or distributor.
Beer distributors sell mainly cases and kegs of beer, but not smaller denominations of beer such as six packs. Six and twelve packs, along with individual beers such as 40 ounce or 24 ounce beers, are sold at bars, restaurants, and bottle shops. A person is only allowed to purchase 192 ounces of beer at a time in this manner. For larger quantities one must go to a beverage distributor which sells beer only by the case or keg. Beverage distributors (which also sell soft drinks) may sell beer and malt liquor, but not wine or hard liquor. Unlike the Wine and Spirits shops, people under 21 may enter most beverage distributors without an adult, but rules vary from store to store.
All stores and beer sales are prohibited on Sunday, exception is local wineries can sell limited volume on Sunday.
Now Maryland is a different thing altogether, laws vary by county.
I’m used to the laws in Minnesota, same as where I came from…so the sales can still be prohibited on Sunday.

Sunday Liquor Sales Argument Points
Is it all that hard to plan ahead and buy up on Saturday? No - but what happens when unexpected dinner guests show up and you do not happen to have a fully stocked wine cellar? It is not like borrowing a cup of sugar from a neighbor.
This leads to the “can you not live a day without alcohol?” We will get to the addict later, but if the vast majority can use the product responsibly then why have an arbitrary restriction of the sale? Target the addicts and those unable to use responsibly if tht is the underlying idea.
Merchants decry losing a day off. OK - So do not open if you do not want to. No one is forcing you to open. Heck if business is slow another day close on that day - much more convenient for doctors visits and such (like buying a car).
The border residents buy their alcohol anyway - by driving across to any of our neighbor states, extra gas, extra wear and tear on our roads and paying taxes to another state instead of here. Inefficient and wasteful – plus we lose out on an estimated 10 million dollars in taxes. Not going to balance the budget by why throw it away?
If you are not supposed to be buying a sinful thing like alcohol then why do we allow other things with sin taxes to be sold like cigarettes? Should not all things seen as a vice be prohibited from sale on Sunday? Why stop with liqueur and cars? (High fructose corn syrup leads to gluttony so perhaps we should look at that too.)
How about the discrimination? If we bar liquor and vehicle sales then why allow the rest of business free rein to operate? If you ban one then to be fair you should ban them all, or none.
A bunch of buddies come over Saturday night and drink you dry - even after careful planning and buying enough the day before. What do you do? Go to a bar of course! Here is the big unspoken selling point. The drunk will drive period, and taking away the option to drink at home you force them to drive. If we could save one MN resident from being killed on a Sunday by a DUI accident then is any of the above even a point to worry about?
When I was in TX there were no alcohol sales on Sunday prior to noon – that gives you the Sabbath observance and the most of the removal of the restrictions on free enterprise. That seems to me to be a reasonable compromise.