Minnesota Dems Want 5-Year Gun Grabs—And You Get Nothing Back

They rammed through an ERPO law in 2023. Now they want it bigger, faster, and cheaper to use against you.

Proposals advancing through both chambers in St. Paul would stretch Extreme Risk Protection Orders from a maximum of one year to **five years**. Judges would be required to hear emergency confiscation requests after hours, on weekends, at midnight if necessary. And the requirement that police reimburse gun owners fair market value for seized firearms? Gone.

The state takes your guns. You get nothing back. That's not a hypothetical—that's the bill text.

The expansion doesn't stop there. Right now, only police chiefs and sheriffs can file ERPO petitions. Under this proposal, any individual patrol officer on scene can initiate the process. A neighbor calls in a complaint, a cop shows up, and before you've been charged with a single crime—before a jury has heard a single word—an officer can start the paperwork to strip your Second Amendment rights for half a decade.

**No charge. No conviction. Five years.**

Richfield Police Chief Jay Henthorne is cheering the bill on, pointing to petition numbers as proof of success: 138 filed in 2024, 314 in 2025. More than doubled. What he glossed over is the number that actually matters—judges granted those petitions **96% of the time**.

Ninety-six percent. That's not due process. That's a rubber stamp with a robe on it.

The NRA sent a letter directly to a Senate committee calling this exactly what it is: a gun confiscation scheme. When 96 out of every 100 petitions get waved through—many filed by police, not family members with genuine safety concerns—this is not a narrowly tailored tool. It is a dragnet. And under the new proposal, that dragnet holds you for five years.

Rep. Cedrick Frazier (DFL-New Hope) is selling this as a lifesaving measure. That's the billboard. The fine print is a half-decade loss of your constitutional rights, triggered by an allegation, rubber-stamped by a judge who now must hear the case even at midnight on a Saturday, with zero compensation when the state walks out the door with your property.

Here's what should make every Minnesota gun owner's blood run cold: **the bill already cleared committee in the tied Minnesota House.** A tied House means it needed Republican votes to advance. It got them. Minnesota gun owners deserve to know exactly who crossed that line—and those representatives need to hear from their constituents before this hits the floor.

**What you do right now determines whether this becomes law.**

Contact your Minnesota state representative and senator today. The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus at mngunowners.org has the tools to find your legislators and make your voice impossible to ignore. If you stay quiet, a five-year ERPO with no reimbursement, filed by any cop on any call, approved 96% of the time, becomes the permanent reality in Minnesota.

This is the template other blue states are watching. What happens in St. Paul doesn't stay in St. Paul.