In Minnesota, you may soon be required to choose between the 2nd Amendment and the 4th Amendment, surrendering one or the other in order to avoid braking state statutory law.
Twin bills, HF 3443 and SF 3654 would ban a myriad of semi-automatic rifles, pistols, and shotguns for being “military-style weapons”. The following would be banned:
Semiautomatic rifles with detachable magazine and also one of the following: “Pistol grip” or even just a “protruding grip”, folding/telesocping stock, barrel shroud, or flash suppresor.
Pistol with either a fixed magazine larger than ten rounds or that can accept a magazine that also has a “protruding grip” for the non-trigger hand, a folding/telescoping/thumbhole stock, barrel shroud, magazine outside of the pistol grip, threaded barrel.
Any shotgun that has a pistol grip, thumbhole stock, a “protruding” grip that can be held by the non-trigger hand, folding/telescoping stock, holds more than ten rounds, or has a detachable magazine.
Also, any conversion kit or part, broadly understood.
Even worse, the “grandfathering” of current owners limits their possession to the home, a licensed firing range, or transportation therebetween… and requires that owners give up their 4th Amendment rights by preemptively agreeing to allow law enforcement to inspect the secure storage of the device without any real limitation.
For even just a smidgen of being permitted to exercise your 2nd Amendment rights, you must surrender your 4th Amendment rights!
The gun control crowd is feeling frisky again, and must be opposed early, and often.
The bills can be read here and here, or below.
Minnesota HF 3433 (2026) by ThePoliticalHat
