The 2026 session, hearing by hearing

The 2026 session began on Tuesday, February 17, 2026, with a 67-67 tie in the Minnesota House, where Republicans held the Speaker’s gavel under a power-sharing agreement, and a 34-33 DFL majority in the Senate. Bills introduced in 2025 stayed alive through the end of the 2026 session.

The DFL heard bans on semi-automatic rifles and magazines, a repeal of statewide preemption, carry bans at the Capitol and in schools, a binary trigger ban, and a permanent “Office of Gun Violence Prevention.” In the House, most were stopped on tied, party-line committee votes. In the Senate, the DFL majority advanced most of them.

Then SF 4067 bundled nearly every gun control priority of the session into one bill. It cleared Senate Finance at a hearing that took no public testimony, then passed the Senate 34-33 on May 4, 2026, by a single vote. It never got a House vote: the House was tied 67-67, and Speaker Lisa Demuth and every House Republican held the line.

Dozens of gun control bills were introduced in 2025 and 2026, and not one passed. Members sent hundreds of thousands of emails, made tens of thousands of calls, and testified at every hearing.

Minnesota House

• HF 3433: semi-automatic rifle ban
  • A total ban on the sale, transfer, and possession of almost all semi-automatic rifles, with grandfathering for the current owner only, a certificate at an unknown cost, warrantless “safe storage” inspections, and no hunting with these firearms. Our video walkthrough
  • Heard in House Public Safety on Tuesday, February 24, 2026, at 3:00 PM in State Capitol 120. The motion to advance failed on a 10-10 party-line vote, and the bill stayed in committee.
  • We opposed this bill.
  • The hearing
• HF 3402: total ban on magazines holding more than 10 rounds
  • A total ban on the manufacture, sale, transfer, and possession of every magazine over ten rounds, with no grandfathering; magazines would have had to be destroyed, turned in, or moved out of state by July 1, 2026. Our video walkthrough
  • Heard in House Public Safety on February 24, 2026. The motion to advance failed on a 10-10 party-line vote, and the bill stayed in committee.
  • We opposed this bill.
  • The hearing
• HF 3351: total repeal of firearm preemption laws
  • Would have let any subdivision of government or municipal corporation pass its own gun control laws, change the scope of a permit to carry, prohibit carry, and regulate firearms and ammunition, creating a patchwork of laws no peaceable Minnesotan could follow.
  • Heard in House Elections Finance & Government Operations on February 25, 2026. The motion to advance failed 7-7 on a party-line vote, and the bill stayed in committee.
  • We opposed this bill.
  • The hearing
• HF 3357: ban on lawful carry at the State Capitol complex
  • Would have prohibited carry at the State Capitol complex, where any permit to carry holder may carry today.
  • Heard in State Government Finance & Policy on Thursday, March 5, 2026. The motion to advance failed on a party-line vote, and the bill stayed in committee.
  • We opposed this bill.
  • The hearing
• HF 3401: prohibiting carry at schools and mandating storage
  • Would have repealed a principal’s authority to let permit holders carry on school property, set storage requirements for firearms in vehicles on school property, and prohibited firearms at every Minnesota State High School League event.
  • Heard in House Education Policy on February 25, 2026. The motion to advance failed 7-7 on a party-line vote, and the bill stayed in committee.
  • We opposed this bill.
  • The hearing
• HF 3668: establishing an “Office of Gun Violence Prevention”
  • Would have created a permanent office of gun control activism in the Minnesota Department of Health.
  • Heard in House Health Finance and Policy on March 2, 2026, and “laid over” for possible inclusion in a future omnibus bill.
  • We opposed this bill.
  • The hearing
• HF 4081: semi-automatic rifle and magazine (10+ rounds) ban
  • A ban on the possession of most semi-automatic rifles, some pistols, and all magazines holding more than ten rounds.
  • Heard in House Judiciary and Civil Law on March 17, 2026, on the provisions in that committee’s jurisdiction, mainly data privacy.
  • We opposed this bill.
  • The hearing

No pro-gun bills moved in the House in 2026 as of our last in-session update (March 15). HF 13, removing the duty to retreat, reached a House floor vote in 2025, where it failed 67-65 (68 votes needed). The 2025 session

Minnesota Senate

• SF 513: establishing the “Office of Gun Violence Prevention”
  • Would have created a permanent office in the Department of Health to develop and promote gun control policy, coordinate with national gun control groups, and fund messaging campaigns, with ongoing taxpayer funding.
  • Advanced from Senate Judiciary and Public Safety on March 13 to Senate Health and Human Services on a party-line voice vote.
  • We opposed this bill.
  • The hearing
• SF 1580: Violence Prevention Project research center appropriation
  • Would have given $1,000,000 through the Commissioner of Public Safety to a Minnesota “gun violence” research center; the only one that qualifies is the anti-gun Violence Project at Hamline University.
  • Advanced from Senate Judiciary and Public Safety on March 13 to Senate Finance on a party-line voice vote.
  • We opposed this bill.
  • The hearing
• SF 2320: preemption repeal for government buildings and land
  • Would have let city, county, and township governments ban carry in government-owned or leased buildings and land.
  • Advanced from Senate Judiciary and Public Safety on March 13 to Senate State and Local Government on a party-line voice vote.
  • We opposed this bill.
  • The hearing
• SF 3572: ending school carry permission
  • The same provisions as HF 3401: no principal’s permission to carry on school property, vehicle storage rules, and no firearms at Minnesota State High School League events.
  • Advanced from Senate Judiciary and Public Safety on March 13 to Senate Education Policy on a roll call vote: all GOP against, all DFL for.
  • We opposed this bill.
  • The hearing
• SF 3631: ban on lawful carry at the State Capitol complex
  • Would have prohibited carry at the State Capitol complex.
  • Laid over on March 13; it stayed in Senate Judiciary and Public Safety.
  • We opposed this bill.
  • The hearing
• SF 3655: semi-automatic rifle and magazine ban
  • A total ban on the sale, transfer, and possession of almost all semi-automatic rifles and magazines over 10 rounds, similar to the House bans heard in February.
  • Advanced from Senate Judiciary and Public Safety on March 13 to Senate Finance on a 6-3 roll call vote: all 6 DFL for, all 3 GOP present against, 1 GOP Senator (Westrom) absent.
  • We opposed this bill.
  • The hearing
• SF 4200: binary trigger ban
  • Would have retroactively reenacted a complete binary trigger ban to January 1, 2025. The 2024 ban was struck down and permanently enjoined in our Caucus v. Walz case.
  • Passed Senate Judiciary and Public Safety on March 13 on a party-line voice vote (DFL for, GOP against), making it eligible for a Senate floor vote.
  • We opposed this bill.
  • The hearing

No pro-gun bills moved in the Senate as of March 15.