Minnesota Wants to Seize Your Guns for 5 Years—No Conviction Needed

Minnesota's gun-grabbers aren't satisfied with their 2023 red flag law. They want it bigger, longer, and harder to fight.

Legislators in St. Paul are pushing changes that would stretch Extreme Risk Protection Orders from one year to **five years**, let any patrol officer on scene file a petition without going through a chief or sheriff, and wipe out the requirement that police reimburse gun owners the fair market value of seized firearms.

That last part isn't a budget fix. **It is a punishment.** They are making confiscation cheaper so it happens more often.

Here is the number every Minnesota gun owner needs to tattoo on their brain: judges approved **96% of all ERPO petitions** in the law's first year. That is not due process. That is a rubber stamp with a robe on it.

Police filed the vast majority of those petitions under the current law. This bill would let any officer skip the chain of command entirely and go straight to a judge—any time, day or night—to have your guns taken before you've been charged with a single crime. The burden then falls on *you* to prove you're not dangerous.

Rep. Cedrick Frazier (DFL-New Hope) is carrying the House bill and calls it legislation that "saved many lives." No evidence cited. No convictions referenced. Just a politician's assertion that taking your guns worked.

The Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association is pushing the expansion hard. Richfield Police Chief Jay Henthorne praised ERPO as a valuable "tool" and wants officers deploying it faster, on the spot. When law enforcement leadership and DFL lawmakers align this tightly on disarming citizens faster and cheaper, **pay attention—this is a machine that wants to accelerate.**

The NRA sent a letter to a Senate committee calling this exactly what it is: a gun confiscation scheme that denies due process. They are right. You are disarmed before you have been convicted—or even charged—with any crime.

Here is what makes this bill especially dangerous right now: it cleared the tied Minnesota House out of committee, which means Republican votes put it there. That is not bipartisanship. **That is Republicans in a 50-50 chamber handing the DFL a win on gun confiscation.**

The DFL-controlled Senate has already moved a companion bill through committee. This legislation has real momentum—and it needs to be stopped before it reaches a full floor vote.

**What you need to do:** Contact your Minnesota state representative and senator today—especially if they have an R next to their name—and make crystal clear that a yes vote on this bill ends their career in any pro-gun district. Find your legislators at leg.mn.gov. The NRA-ILA is engaged; add your voice now, not after the floor vote is called.

Minnesota is the test case. If a 96% rubber-stamp rate and a five-year confiscation window can survive in a 50-50 chamber with Republican help, every other blue-leaning state legislature is watching and taking notes. **This is where the line gets drawn—or doesn't.**