Minnesota's 5-Year Gun Grab: No Charges, No Pay, No Fix

The state that rammed through a red flag law with zero Republican votes in 2023 is back — and this time they want to make it worse in every direction that counts.

The proposed upgrades to Minnesota's Extreme Risk Protection Order law would stretch confiscation orders from **one year to five years**, open the filing authority to **any rank-and-file officer on the scene**, and gut the existing requirement that police reimburse seized firearms at fair market value. Not reduce reimbursement. Eliminate it. They want your guns and they want to owe you nothing.

**That's not a tweak. That's a blueprint.**

The bill has already cleared a key House committee — with bipartisan support. Translation: at least some Republicans in a tied chamber looked at a five-year no-compensation gun grab and said *sure, let's advance it*. If you're a Minnesota gun owner, that sentence should feel like a punch to the gut, because it is.

The raw petition numbers show exactly where this law is headed. In 2024: 138 petitions filed. In 2025: 314. In just the first two months of 2026: 60. And judges approved those orders **96 percent of the time**. That is not a careful constitutional safeguard. That is a rubber stamp on a conveyor belt.

Rep. Cedrick Frazier (DFL-New Hope), who carries the bill, calls it lifesaving. What he won't say out loud: the 2023 original passed with **zero Republican votes** precisely because opponents identified it as a due process train wreck. Nothing in these amendments repairs a single one of those failures. A citizen's firearms can still be seized before any charge is filed, before any conviction is entered — and now, potentially, for *half a decade*.

Richfield Police Chief Jay Henthorne praised the expansion's ability for officers to file paperwork "right there on site" to "expedite the process." The process he means is the one that strips your Second Amendment rights. Expediting that is not a feature. It is the entire problem.

The Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association is on board. The DFL-controlled Senate has already moved its companion bill through committee. Floor votes in both chambers are approaching.

The NRA called it what it is in a letter to the Senate committee: a **gun confiscation scheme**. That label fits. Five-year orders with no compensation and no due process fix are not a mental health intervention — they are a long-term disarmament mechanism wearing a sympathetic press release as a costume.

**Here's what the clock looks like:** Both chambers have live bills. At least one Republican already helped move the House version. Every day without constituent pressure is a day closer to a floor vote that could lock Minnesota gun owners into the most aggressive ERPO regime in the country.

Contact your Minnesota state representative and senator — *especially* any Republican who voted this out of committee — and make clear that a five-year confiscation order with no due process reform and no compensation is a non-starter. Find your legislators at leg.mn.gov. Get on the NRA and Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus alert lists before the floor vote lands without warning.

**This is the model.** If it passes in Minnesota, gun-control groups will be packaging it for a legislature near you within the year. Watch this one like it's your own state — because eventually, it might be.