What they tried in 2026, they’ll try again in 2027

The 2027 session opens January 12 with a DFL trifecta and larger DFL majorities than in 2023-24. The day after the election, Governor-elect Amy Klobuchar said the 2026 omnibus gun bill “is going to get passed” and “certainly should be one of our top priorities.”

Every bill starts over with a new number in 2027, so the next ban won’t be called SF 4067. Expect bills that build on 2026’s SF 4067, often with the same ideas and the same text, under new numbers. This page lays out what the DFL tried in 2026 so you’ll recognize it when it comes back.

The 2026 omnibus gun bill (SF 4067)

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. Here’s what the version that passed the Senate would have done:

• Banned dealer sales of “semiautomatic military-style assault weapons.” The definition covers most semi-automatic rifles with a detachable magazine and one listed feature, such as a pistol grip, a folding or telescoping stock, or a forward grip. It also covers some pistols and shotguns, and the parts to build any of them. The “sporting purposes” exemption that has protected modern hunting rifles for 30 years would be deleted.
• Banned dealer sales of magazines that hold more than 17 rounds. Tube magazines in .22s and lever guns are exempt.
• Required state certification of the ones you already own. Every owner would have to register each covered rifle and magazine with the BCA, pay a fee, and renew every three years. Owning one without certification would be a gross misdemeanor, and a second offense a felony. This would have taken effect July 1, 2027.
• Restricted private sales. Certified rifles and magazines could change hands between private parties only through the state’s transfer process.
• Ended the school parking-lot exception for permit holders. Dropping your kids off at school with your carry pistol locked in the car would become a crime.
• Reenacted the binary trigger ban, retroactive to January 1, 2025. Our lawsuit, Caucus v. Walz, struck that ban down, and the Court of Appeals affirmed in May 2026.
• Restricted home-built firearms. It would have required serial numbers from a dealer, capped builds at three a year, and criminalized sharing 3D-printing files.
• Expanded red flag orders and storage crimes, and funded a red flag awareness campaign and a $500,000 “violence prevention” research center.

Everything else they tried in 2026

These bills were heard in 2026. In the House, most were stopped on tied, party-line committee votes. With a DFL majority, those ties become wins for them.

• Total bans with no grandfathering for sales. HF 3433 and HF 4081 would have banned nearly all semi-automatic rifles, and HF 3402 every magazine over 10 rounds, which owners would have had to destroy, surrender, or move out of state. See Semi-automatic and magazine bans.
• Repealing statewide preemption (HF 3351), or letting cities ban carry in their buildings and on their land (SF 2320). Full repeal would immediately activate Minneapolis’s, Saint Paul’s, and Edina’s rifle and magazine bans. See the preemption hearing.
• Banning carry at the State Capitol complex (HF 3357, SF 3631), where permit holders can carry today.
• Ending school carry permission (HF 3401, SF 3572), and banning firearms at every Minnesota State High School League event.
• A permanent “Office of Gun Violence Prevention” in the Department of Health (HF 3668, SF 513), and $1 million for an anti-gun research center (SF 1580).
• A tax on guns and ammunition, insurance mandates for gun owners, and a red flag expansion, all part of Governor Walz’s package.

What we expect in 2027

• An omnibus gun bill early in the session that builds on 2026’s SF 4067: the rifle and magazine sales ban, certification of what you already own, and the binary trigger reenactment.
• A renewed push to repeal or carve up preemption, so cities like Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and Edina can enforce their own bans.
• Carry restrictions at the Capitol, at schools, and in government buildings.
• Bills we haven’t seen yet. We’ll post each bill here and on the Bill Tracker as soon as it’s introduced.

Will my rifle, or my SKS, be covered? We won’t know until the 2027 bill text is filed. The 2026 definitions are a strong hint, but the details often change in committee. We’ll explain every version as it moves.

How we fight it

Dozens of gun control bills were introduced in 2025 and 2026, and not one passed. That happened because members sent hundreds of thousands of emails, made tens of thousands of calls, and testified at every hearing. During the last DFL trifecta, gun owners also kept the most sweeping bans from becoming law. That work starts again now, before the bills move.

• At the Capitol: testimony at every hearing, and calls from constituents to the handful of legislators these bills depend on. Get action alerts so you know when to call.
• At the Second Amendment Day of Action: gun owners from across Minnesota at the Capitol together, meeting their own legislators face to face. We’ll announce the date through our action alerts.
• On YouTube: follow our YouTube channel for bill breakdowns, hearing highlights, and quick updates from the Capitol all session. See the latest on our video page.
• In court: the MN Gun Owners Law Center challenges unconstitutional laws when the Legislature won’t listen, as we did with the binary trigger ban.
• Locally: know your legislators before session starts. Find your legislators.

Back to the 2027 session page. Last updated November 6, 2026.