Minnesota's 5-Year Gun Grab: No Conviction. No Trial. 96% Approved.

Minnesota gun owners, remember 2023—when the state gutted your rights and called it safety? They're back. And this time, they want half a decade.

Bills advancing in both chambers of the Minnesota Legislature would transform the state's existing Extreme Risk Protection Order law from a one-year confiscation tool into a **five-year weapon against you**. That is not a reform. That is a siege.

Under the proposal, any individual patrol officer—not a chief, not a judge, not a prosecutor building a case—can file an ERPO petition against you on the spot. Rep. Cedrick Frazier (DFL-New Hope) is leading the charge, praising the expansion as legislation that has "saved many lives." What he won't say out loud: it saves them without a single conviction, without a single trial, and in 96% of cases—without a single judge pushing back.

Let that number land. In Minnesota's first year under the current ERPO law, judges granted petitions **96% of the time**. Law enforcement filed the majority of them. That is not a safety net with guardrails. That is a conveyor belt to disarmament.

And they're not done tightening the belt.

The bill also **strips the reimbursement provision** that currently required police to pay fair market value for firearms seized under an order. Richfield Police Chief Jay Henthorne—president of the Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association, which backs the bill—called paying gun owners for confiscated property a "significant cost burden." Their solution? Don't raise the evidentiary standard. Just stop compensating the people they disarm.

**They take your guns. They keep your money. And they call it public safety.**

There's more. The proposal would require judges to hear emergency confiscation petitions around the clock—after hours, on weekends, no deliberation window. A 2 a.m. knock is no longer hypothetical. It's the design.

The NRA isn't sitting this one out. In a formal letter delivered to a Minnesota Senate committee last week, the NRA went on record calling this exactly what it is: a "gun confiscation" scheme. That letter matters—it's a named, documented intervention as the bill moves toward a full House vote in a chamber so divided it needed Republican crossover votes just to clear committee.

Some Republicans voted this thing out. Gun owners in those districts deserve to know who betrayed them.

Due process—the bedrock principle that government must prove its case *before* stripping your property and your rights—is not a legal technicality. It is the floor of a free society. Minnesota's ERPO law was already cracking that floor. This bill jackhammers through it.

The NRA-ILA is already on record. The bill is already moving. The clock is already running.

**What you do right now:** Go to leg.mn.gov, find your Minnesota state representative and senator, and make the call—especially if a Republican in your district helped this clear committee. Tell them five-year confiscation without conviction is unconstitutional, and you are paying attention. Because if this passes, Minnesota won't be the last state to try it.