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Minnesota Bill Would Require Gun Registration and Police Inspections, Deadlocked in Committee
AmmoLand ^ | March 4, 2026 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 03/06/2026 4:12:57 AM PST by marktwain

The Minnesota legislature is considering HF 3433. HF3433 contains several significant infringements on the rights protected by the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. The bill was introduced in the Minnesota House of Representatives on February 17, 2026. HF 3433 has been referred to the Minnesota House of Representatives Committee on Public Safety Finance and Policy. 35 members of the House have signed up as authors of the bill.

HF3433 bans a long list of firearms by name, bans firearms by specific features, requires people who desire to keep any of the firearms specified to register them, store them in accordance with requirements to be adopted, and agree to allow police to inspect the storage system. Registration will be required to be renewed every three years, and the firearms will only be allowed to be kept on the property of the individual. In addition, those firearms would only be allowed to be fired on licensed firing ranges.

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The bill is almost certainly unconstitutional. With a split legislature, I do not expect it to pass in Minnesota.
1 posted on 03/06/2026 4:12:57 AM PST by marktwain
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To: marktwain

No question about it, absolutely unconstitutional.


2 posted on 03/06/2026 4:17:07 AM PST by Skwor
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To: marktwain

Make Minnesota the main stage for thoughtful engagement about America’s future

https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2026/03/make-minnesota-the-main-stage-for-thoughtful-engagement-about-americas-future/


3 posted on 03/06/2026 4:17:29 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: marktwain

Proposed laws like this are a permanent fixture at all levels of government. Often, they contain the exact language of previous laws that were overturned in court. Why do they do this? My guess is that they aren’t really intended to become laws. They are a nod to the radical base of the Democratic party. They are aimed at telling the radical far left, “See, we’re working for you every day.” What this says to me is, keeping the far left happy is a constant goal, and the writers think, perhaps with justification, that the far left are idiots. I’m guessing that the author of such proposed legislation expects and probably gets contributions from those idiots. That’s what the proposed laws are actually about.


4 posted on 03/06/2026 4:20:19 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud. Sorry. )
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To: marktwain
"requires people who desire to keep any of the firearms specified to register them, store them in accordance with requirements to be adopted, and agree to allow police to inspect the storage system."

Proposing a law that makes the 2nd amendment conditional, and forces one to waive their 4th amendment rights. Nothing unconstitutional there.

5 posted on 03/06/2026 4:38:49 AM PST by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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"Often, they contain the exact language of previous laws that were overturned in court."

This comes to mind:
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

Its meant to harass people.

6 posted on 03/06/2026 4:43:36 AM PST by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: marktwain

Maybe they can send social workers to homes to try to enforce it....


7 posted on 03/06/2026 5:11:34 AM PST by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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and agree to allow police to inspect the storage system

GFYS!

8 posted on 03/06/2026 5:38:16 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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No. Minnesota will use heavily militarized SWAT teams and armored vehicles to inspect gun safes and review gunowners’ registration documents.

The social workers will deal with murder, rape, assault and armed robbery.


9 posted on 03/06/2026 5:59:00 AM PST by sphinx
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This would cause some bad outcomes in so many ways.


10 posted on 03/06/2026 6:15:08 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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Reminds me of a friend who got a job repo cars. First car he was hooking up was in the hood. Guy yells at him: put your hands on that car and that is where they are going to stay. He left and quit.

First clown trying to check on my household storage without a warrant will find out what a minuteman was.


11 posted on 03/06/2026 6:21:21 AM PST by Mouton (There is a new sheriff and deputy in town now!)
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“...I do not expect it to pass in Minnesota.”

I don’t see where the problem is. If they can’t spell learning then they won’t be able to find the safety that is sold in lock.

wy69


12 posted on 03/06/2026 6:37:34 AM PST by whitney69 (uin.)
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In 1941, the US Congress saw how the nazis used gun registration to confiscate French firearms. Just days before the Pearl Harbor attack, Congress reaffirmed Second Amendment rights and prohibited gun registration. In 1968, bills to register guns were debated, with opponents recalling the Nazi experience and supporters denying that the Nazis ever used registration records to confiscate guns. The bills were defeated, as every such proposal has been ever since, including recent “universal background check” bills.

The lies we have been told over the years...

1962 We ONLY want to register handguns. Rifles will not be affected!
1964, We ONLY want to register ALL firearms, not ban them.

1968 We ONLY want to register all guns, and ban the import of foreign Saturday Night Specials, and 5-shot bolt action army surplus rifles! (they got the ban).

1970, We ONLY want to ban small American handguns. Rifles will not be affected!

1976 We ONLY want to ban ALL handguns! Rifles will not be affected!

1981, Actress Lee Grant on Good Morning America (ABC) screams...”THE NRA IS A RIFLE ORGANIZATION! THEY SHOULD GIVE UP THEIR HANDGUNS AND THEY CAN KEEP THEIR RIFLES!”

1984, they came for the rifles.

1994..When they thought they had banned “As-s-s-ault rifles they did not shut off the lights and go home. they immediately went after their next target, .50 cal single shot rifles “THAT CAN TAKE DOWN AN AIRPLANE!”

They will never be satisfied till they have an unarmed population.


13 posted on 03/06/2026 7:10:08 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (REOPEN THE MENTAL HOSPITALS CLOSED IN THE 1970s!)
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To: marktwain

Given that the state of Minnesota is in a state of rebellion I’m not sure how I feel about this.


14 posted on 03/06/2026 7:47:19 AM PST by Tallguy
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There should be severe penalties for public officials that attempt every couple of months to outlaw our God given and Constitutionally protected rights. It should be a personal penalty. It is the height of stupidity to continue like this.


15 posted on 03/06/2026 9:42:19 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (FTL)
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Minnesota Bill Would Require Gun Registration and Police Inspections, Deadlocked in Committee

Is Minnesota Bill someone we should know like Minnesota Fats?

16 posted on 03/06/2026 12:56:03 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: sphinx

Most of those police will leave their heads unprotected so a head shot will be most effective.


17 posted on 03/06/2026 6:30:34 PM PST by nonliberal (Russia is not my enemy.)
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