One of my peeves over this past thirty-odd years, when the topic of the conversation turned to gun control (I'm not calling it "gun safety") was when they'd condescendingly coo "nobody's coming for your guns", as if they were a mommy trying to calm down a baby with a tummyache, as opposed to parroting chanting points to someone who's actually paying attention.
The silver lining of this past year or so is that they can finally shut up about their intentions.
Following on big gun grabs in blue cities as well as California, Colorado, and Virginia, the DFL-controlled Minnesota state Senate passed a draconian gun grab bill earlier this week:
NEW RESOURCE: STOP SF4067 🚨
— MN Gun Owners Caucus (@mnguncaucus) May 6, 2026
We’ve released a new print-ready grassroots action toolkit breaking down the DFL’s massive gun control omnibus bill.
Inside:
❌ Semi-auto firearm bans
❌ Magazine bans
❌ Firearm registration
❌ Restrictions on homemade firearms
❌ 3D print/CAD file… pic.twitter.com/DxMLVIJLoP
Minnesota’s Senate narrowly approved new restrictions on assault-style weapons and high capacity magazines Monday, a response to tragic shootings in schools and other settings. The proposal remains stuck in the tied House...“This legislation is comprehensive and doesn't compromise on our values. Students and parents do not want us to choose between banning weapons of war and investing in schools. This isn't either, or. We need both,” said Sen. Zaynab Mohamed, DFL-Minneapolis, who sponsored the bill.
Minnesota's gun rights movement is large and well-organized...:
Gun rights organizations have said the bill would unfairly infringe on gun owners’ rights. “These firearms and these magazines, are owned by hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans for a multitude of reasons, whether it's self defense or hunting or sports shooting, and they're clearly protected by the Second Amendment and the Minnesota Constitution,” Anna Leamy, director of government relations and advocacy at the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, said on MPR’s Minnesota Now. “This is not going to do anything to stop the criminals who are already ignoring Minnesota's gun laws and so many of their other laws,” Leamy continued.
...and will put up a solid fight - their legal branch is undefeated against the state of Minnesota - although the antis are floating on enough money from Michael Bloomberg to buy half the firearms in Minnesota outright.
The story's headline says the bill's future is "murky" in the House, which is tied 67-67. There's nothing murky about it - tie votes fail. Barring the most colossal betrayal in the history of Minnesota politics (no Minnesota Republican has voted for a gun control bill in 30 years) the bill is deader in the house than Jimmy Hoffa.
The bill is clearly trying to get the metro "progressive" base riled up to forget the DFL's fraud epidemic and turn out for midterms - where the DFL hopes to take the House and hold the Senate, and taking the calculated risk that several DFL senators in shooter-heavy districts will survive:
For months, at least three Democratic senators have seemed resistant to passing a firearm ban, including Sen. Grant Hauschild of Hermantown.
Hauschild revealed during the Senate floor debate Monday that his cousin’s children were in Annunciation when the shooting occurred. Hauschild represents a rural Minnesota district where gun rights are an important issue.
“It shouldn’t take a personal experience that I had in order for me to have the courage to do something, but that is the reality that I’m living,” Hauschild admitted, breaking down in tears.
Sen. Judy Seeberger, DFL-Afton, in the past has expressed criticism of banning firearms, and continued during her Senate floor speech Monday: “Calling them weapons of war is disingenuous. Making up terms like assault weapons doesn’t help us advance the real issues,” Seeberger said. “It’s frustrating to me … that people who don’t fully understand the issue try to make policy on that issue.”
If the DFL does take the House and hold the Senate and Governor's office, they can expect to get hit not only with litigation on Constitutional grounds, but by a newly 2nd-Amendment-friendly Department of Justice:
Just sued Denver. How’s your day going? https://t.co/dkPOk1d8hx
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@HarmeetKDhillon) May 5, 2026
This @CivilRights Division will not stand for the infringement of Americans’ Second Amendment rights. Colorado is ON NOTICE for its ban on certain constitutionally protected standard capacity firearms magazines! https://t.co/yIFUffyLF9
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) May 6, 2026
It's gonna be a great couple of years of court-watching. And probably a scary few years for law-abiding citizens who own guns.
