With just a few days left in this year’s legislative session, anti-gun activists in Minnesota are doubling down on their efforts to pass a sweeping gun and magazine ban will. Lawmakers are supposed to adjourn one week from today, and the state Senate has already adopted a bill that would ban the manufacture, sale, and transfer of so-called assault weapons and “large capacity” magazines.
Anti-gunners were able to convince a handful of DFL state senators from more rural parts of the state to go along with the gun ban bill by including funding for mental health services and school security in the package. Sen. Rob Kupec barely acknowledged the gun control portion of the legislation in his comments following the vote, instead choosing to focus on the portions of the legislation that would likely have garnered bipartisan support if they’d been the sole subject of the bill.
“From the beginning of this legislative session, I told my colleagues that I would only support a safety package that addressed gun violence in a comprehensive way,” Kupec said. “Our kids deserve to attend school without fearing for their safety, and today I was proud to vote for a wide-ranging package that will strengthen protections, enhance prevention efforts, fund mental health services, and support safer schools across our state.”
Sen. Judy Seeberger was the first of the three supposedly moderate DFL state senators to come out in favor of a semi-auto ban, but she appeared to walk back that support in a floor speech, even while voting in favor of the package.
She also criticized members of her own party for not being knowledgeable on guns and for mischaracterizing “assault weapons,” a phrase that many Republicans have argued is not even a technical term.
“I will be a ‘yes’ on this bill, because we need to do something,” Seeberger said. “But I am disappointed that this has become a partisan issue used by both sides to advance their aims in an election year.”
Is there any phrase more despicable in politics than “we need to do something?”
Lawmakers make laws, so when they say they need to do something they’re inevitably talking about putting another law on the books. Did Seeburger need to go along with a bill making the most popular rifles in the country off limits to Minnesotans, though? Why couldn’t she do something to increase funds for school security and mental health resources without infringing on our Second Amendment rights?
Now that the gun ban bill has cleared the Senate, the anti-gunners are putting pressure on Republican House Speaker Lisa Demuth to bring the legislation to the House floor for a vote. The parents of a 10-year-old killed in the Annunciation Church shooting have even claimed that Demuth told them she’d allow a gun ban bill to get a full vote in the House.
Asked for comment on Moyski’s claims, a House GOP spokesperson said, “The Speaker has been clear that the bill would have to move through the committee process to the floor — which it has not done in the Minnesota House.”
“House Republicans remain committed and continue to fight for school safety legislation that will protect Minnesota students,” the spokesperson said.
According to one of Demuth’s aides, the House has yet to take up several lengthy bills that have cleared the Senate.
The equally-divided House has already rejected gun and magazine bans in committee this session, but it would only take one GOP House member to support the Senate package to advance the legislation out of committee and on to the House floor, or to bypass the committee process altogether.
So far, Republicans are holding firm in their opposition, even while Democrats and gun control supporters accuse them of doing nothing in response to the Annunciation shooting. Republicans did introduce bills to increase school security, but those died after party-line votes in both chambers. Democrats are trying to raise hell over Demuth’s refusal (to date, anyway) to do anything with the Senate bill, but as MN Gun Owners Law Center head Rob Doar pointed out on X on Sunday, Democrats engaged in their own parliamentary tricks just two years ago.
The House DFL’s procedural sensitivities ring hollow… for some reason. #mnleg https://t.co/QApLzoDvMf pic.twitter.com/NiV55Y05zl
— Rob Doar (@robdoar) May 10, 2026
Minnesota gun owners and Second Amendment advocates need to keep up their own pressure on Demuth and Republican leadership in the House over the next week. Don’t take it for granted that the Senate’s gun ban bill is dead in the water, and don’t assume your Second Amendment rights are safe just because Democrats don’t have a majority in the House. Call, write, and email your legislators and demand they hold firm in support of our right to keep and bear arms and in opposition to legislation that would eradicate our right to purchase and possess commonly owned firearms like the AR-15.
Editor’s Note: The radical Left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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