Overview
- DFL lawmakers began an overnight sit-in Thursday after the House floor session to demand a floor vote on the Senate-passed gun bill, SF 4067.
- Advocates, including parents from the Annunciation school shooting, delivered more than 8,000 signatures Thursday urging Speaker Lisa Demuth to allow a vote before the session ends Sunday.
- House Democrats attempted to bring the bill up for a vote Thursday afternoon in a move they said would likely fail, using the effort to spotlight the stalemate.
- Demuth says the bill will not reach the floor until it clears House committees, and she notes similar measures failed on party-line votes in committee.
- The Senate package would ban certain semiautomatic rifles, high-capacity magazines, binary triggers and ghost guns and would add funds for school safety and student mental health, but its fate in the tied House remains uncertain.