Totally unconstitutional but when has that stopped the Minnesota DFL.
If passed it should eventually be slapped down by SCOTUS but that will take years in court to get there.
At a minimum I'm expecting a standard capacity magazine ban with no grandfather clause to go through this year.


The bill seeks to ban Semiautomatic military-style assault weapon, semi-auto pistol or rifle with a detachable magazine that holds 10 or more rounds, certain semiauto shotguns, and parts kits that can be used to build a rifle.
Nice kicker on being back dated to 8/1/2023 when the universal background check law went into effect.

Full Bill Text

A bill for an act
relating to public safety; prohibiting the sale or transfer of a semiautomatic
military-style assault weapon; authorizing a buyback program for these weapons;
appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 624.712,
subdivision 7; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 624.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA

(b) Semiautomatic military-style assault weapon also includes any:
(1) semiautomatic rifle that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine and has
one or more of the following:
(i) a pistol grip or thumbhole stock;
(ii) any feature capable of functioning as a protruding grip that can be held by the
nontrigger hand;
(iii) a folding or telescoping stock; or
(iv) a shroud attached to the barrel, or that partially or completely encircles the barrel,
allowing the bearer to hold the firearm with the nontrigger hand without being burned, but
excluding a slide that encloses the barrel;
(2) semiautomatic pistol, or any semiautomatic, centerfire, or rimfire rifle with a fixed
magazine that has the capacity to accept more than ten rounds of ammunition;
(3) semiautomatic pistol that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine and has
one or more of the following:
(i) any feature capable of functioning as a protruding grip that can be held by the
nontrigger hand;
(ii) a folding, telescoping, or thumbhole stock;
(iii) a shroud attached to the barrel, or that partially or completely encircles the barrel,
allowing the bearer to hold the firearm with the nontrigger hand without being burned, but
excluding a slide that encloses the barrel; or
(iv) the capacity to accept a detachable magazine at any location outside of the pistol
grip;
(4) semiautomatic shotgun that has one or more of the following:
(i) a pistol grip or thumbhole stock;
(ii) any feature capable of functioning as a protruding grip that can be held by the
nontrigger hand;
(iii) a folding or telescoping stock;
(iv) a fixed magazine capacity in excess of ten rounds; or
(v) an ability to accept a detachable magazine;
(5) shotgun with a revolving cylinder; or
(6) conversion kit, part, or combination of parts from which an assault weapon can be
assembled if those parts are in the possession or under the control of the same person.
Semiautomatic military-style assault weapon does not mean any firearm described in this
paragraph that has been made permanently inoperable.

EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective August 1, 2023, and applies to crimes
committed on or after that date.

No surprise really.
Red states gonna get more red, blue states gonna get more blue.

2024 is gonna be a shit show

Info from MN Gunowner's Caucus:  https://gunowners.mn/take-action/2024-session/

Here's the clown

https://mailchi.mp/apfarmory/minnesota-gun-ban-introduced?e=ae8b853d78

It gets worse...

\uD83D\uDEA8Second day of session, second extreme gun ban bill \uD83D\uDEA8

This is probably the most extreme gun bill I’ve ever seen.

This bill bans the POSSESSION, not just the transfer, of the most common rifle in America, ten plus round magazines, and more.

\uD83E\uDDF5 pic.twitter.com/BPV3OeC3Et

Nick Majerus  (@njmajerus) February 13, 2024

If you want to keep any magazines or semi-auto rifles you’d need to

- Register them with the state and re-register every three years (for a fee!)
- Never transfer them, including inheritance
- Comply with a defenseless storage mandate

Or face five years in prison. pic.twitter.com/9GsHzcJ2Vw

Nick Majerus  (@njmajerus) February 13, 2024

As written its ex post facto with the backdating to August 2023, which I don't think jives in MN

Donate to MN Gun caucus and contact your legislators

Apply maximum pressure and vote this election cycle

There’s still hope for MN

In one of the MN Gun Owners videos from yesterday that Rob posted on youtube he was saying he's more worried about the bill to repeal the states preemption laws at this point than the rest.  

Odd question, if they pass that, can a city then forego the state mandate on a permit to purchase for a pistol?

https://gunowners.mn/take-action/petitions/stop-the-semi-auto-gun-ban-2024/?__s=iuiv9gsobcr55ilwfmo2

Sign the above petition and pass it on

Oh jezuz. That fruitcake.

So is this a ban on just sales or transfer or is this a total ban of ownership?

Tar & Feather then Cleanse it with FIRE.

So as long and I remove the handguards and the pistol grip while learning to shoot the rifle one handed I'm all good?

Don't know but sounds like we may find out.  Committee hearing set for next Tuesday the 12th, according to MN Gun Owners.
Sounds like a city or county could pass anything they want as far as gun control.  Rob said the committee is made up of I think he said 9 Dems and 6 Republicans so not much of a stretch to say it will pass out of committee next week.
He's asking for anybody that can make it to show up for the hearing and to start pressing your representatives, again.

No. Cities could make more restrictive laws, but not less restrictive.
What you're asking is like the states trying to make suppressors made in the state legal -- it doesn't work that way.