Talyn
Emissary
The Minnesota state House is set to hold hearings on bills to ban most semi-auto firearms and their magazines this week.
On the agenda for the House Public Safety Committee on Tuesday will be HF 3433, a ban on "semiautomatic military-style assault weapons," and HF 3402, a ban of "large-capacity ammunition magazines."
The bills, which have 35 Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party sponsors in the chamber, have very strict language as introduced, with few provisions for grandfathering guns and no option for grandfathering magazines currently owned. The bans would be backed up with a penalty of as much as five years in prison and a $25,000 fine for violations.
HF 3433 outlaws the future sale and possession of most semi-autos, including .22 LR rimfires with a fixed magazine greater than 10 rounds, such as a venerable Marlin Model 60. Some guns in current circulation in the state would be allowed if registered and certified by law enforcement in a Canadian-style process that includes home inspection and limits on where the gun can be stored. The fee and red tape for the certification have yet to be determined.
The magazine ban, HF 3402, is just that – outlawing even the possession of any detachable magazine capable of holding more than 10 cartridges. The proposal stipulates that the devices be destroyed, turned over to the police, or otherwise moved out of state by July 1, 2026.
Pro-Second Amendment groups such as the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus and the National Association for Gun Rights are vehemently opposed to both measures.
"This is one of the most extreme gun bans we have seen," said NAGR in a statement directing constituents to Minnesota's legislators. "We need you to act now."
Success in the Minnesota House, which has a 67-67 tie between Dems and the GOP with a Republican – Rep. Lisa Demuth – holding the position as Speaker, would send the measures to the state Senate, where the DFL has a narrow one-vote majority. If passed, it would land on Gov. Tim Walz's desk, the progressive former 2024 Democrat Veep candidate who has a long anti-2A track record, including signing every gun control bill that has made it to his desk.
On the agenda for the House Public Safety Committee on Tuesday will be HF 3433, a ban on "semiautomatic military-style assault weapons," and HF 3402, a ban of "large-capacity ammunition magazines."
The bills, which have 35 Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party sponsors in the chamber, have very strict language as introduced, with few provisions for grandfathering guns and no option for grandfathering magazines currently owned. The bans would be backed up with a penalty of as much as five years in prison and a $25,000 fine for violations.
HF 3433 outlaws the future sale and possession of most semi-autos, including .22 LR rimfires with a fixed magazine greater than 10 rounds, such as a venerable Marlin Model 60. Some guns in current circulation in the state would be allowed if registered and certified by law enforcement in a Canadian-style process that includes home inspection and limits on where the gun can be stored. The fee and red tape for the certification have yet to be determined.
The magazine ban, HF 3402, is just that – outlawing even the possession of any detachable magazine capable of holding more than 10 cartridges. The proposal stipulates that the devices be destroyed, turned over to the police, or otherwise moved out of state by July 1, 2026.
Pro-Second Amendment groups such as the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus and the National Association for Gun Rights are vehemently opposed to both measures.
"This is one of the most extreme gun bans we have seen," said NAGR in a statement directing constituents to Minnesota's legislators. "We need you to act now."
Success in the Minnesota House, which has a 67-67 tie between Dems and the GOP with a Republican – Rep. Lisa Demuth – holding the position as Speaker, would send the measures to the state Senate, where the DFL has a narrow one-vote majority. If passed, it would land on Gov. Tim Walz's desk, the progressive former 2024 Democrat Veep candidate who has a long anti-2A track record, including signing every gun control bill that has made it to his desk.
