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Minnesota House Leaves Senate-Passed Gun Bill Stalled On Final Day

House leaders cite failed committee votes as the reason it has not reached the floor.

Overview

  • The gun package, which remained sidelined Sunday, saw no House floor vote as the session’s midnight deadline approached.
  • SF 4067 would ban certain semiautomatic rifles, cap magazine size, restrict ghost guns and binary triggers, require safe storage, and fund school mental-health support.
  • DFL lawmakers held a roughly 36-hour sit-in and, following Saturday’s rally, families from Annunciation Catholic School urged leaders to hold a vote.
  • Speaker Lisa Demuth says the measures failed on party-line votes in House committees, while Republicans urge a vote on school-safety pieces without the gun bans.
  • Even as the gun bill stalled, both chambers passed a Capitol security plan that keeps weapons screening and creates a State Patrol unit to investigate threats to lawmakers.