ST. PAUL, MN — The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus secured a landmark constitutional victory today when Ramsey County District Court Judge Leonardo Castro struck down Minnesota’s binary trigger ban.
In Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus v. Walz, the court ruled that the Legislature violated the Minnesota Constitution’s single-subject rule by burying the ban deep inside the 1,400-page 2024 Tax Omnibus Bill.
The court permanently blocked enforcement of the ban.
“Today, the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus ended Minnesota’s binary trigger ban,” said Bryan Strawser, Chair of the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus. “The Walz administration and anti-gun legislators tried to sneak an unconstitutional restriction into a massive omnibus bill. The court said no. Minnesota’s Constitution—not backroom deals—controls how laws are made in this state.”
“The State has repeatedly tried to bury gun control provisions inside sprawling omnibus bills. Today’s ruling makes clear that this practice violates the Minnesota Constitution, ” said Rob Doar, Senior Vice President of the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus. “If lawmakers attempt to cram anti-gun measures into omnibus bills in the future, we will challenge them in court again—and our track record of victories should give them pause.”
With today’s decision, the binary trigger ban is gone.
The ruling reaffirms both the Second Amendment and Minnesotans’ constitutional right to transparent, single-subject lawmaking.
Learn more at gunowners.mn/binarysuit
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