Minnesota's 5-Year Gun Grab: No Crime, No Refund, No Mercy

Minnesota's gun-grabbers weren't satisfied with the ERPO law they rammed through in 2023. Now they want it bigger, faster, and essentially permanent.

Bills moving through both chambers at the State Capitol would let judges strip law-abiding citizens of their firearms for up to **five years** on a single petition. Emergency orders would be available around the clock—judges on call at midnight to sign away your rights. And in what may be the most brazen provision of all: **the state would no longer be required to reimburse you fair market value for the guns they confiscate.**

Read that again. Right now, if an Extreme Risk Protection Order is issued and your firearms are seized, Minnesota must pay you what they're worth. These proposals would erase that protection entirely. Your property. Gone. No compensation. No apology.

**They're not just taking your guns. They want to take them for free.**

The expansion would also allow **any patrol officer** to file an ERPO petition on the spot—not just chiefs or sheriffs. That means one cop at your door, in a tense moment, becomes the trigger for a legal proceeding that strips your Second Amendment rights before you've been charged with a single crime. No conviction. No arrest. No due process. Just a petition and a rubber stamp.

And about that rubber stamp: in Minnesota's first year under the ERPO law, 138 petitions were filed. By 2025, that number had surged to 314. Judges approved **96% of them.**

A 96% approval rate isn't proof the system is working. It's proof there is no meaningful check on these petitions. That's not due process—that's a conveyor belt.

Richfield Police Chief Jay Henthorne, president of the Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association, is cheering the expansion, calling ERPOs a "tool that's being successful." Successful at *what*, Chief? Bypassing the Fourth and Second Amendments without a single criminal conviction?

Rep. Cedrick Frazier (DFL-New Hope) calls this "legislation that has saved many lives." A feel-good claim with no evidentiary standard attached—the perfect political cover for stripping constitutional rights from people who haven't been accused of anything.

The NRA, in a formal letter to a Senate committee, correctly labels this what it is: a **"gun confiscation"** scheme that denies due process to citizens who haven't been convicted—or even charged—with any crime.

**Here's what should terrify you most:** the bill already cleared a procedural hurdle in the tied Minnesota House. That means Republicans crossed the aisle. In the DFL-controlled Senate, it sailed through committee without breaking a sweat.

This isn't a long shot. This is moving.

Minnesota gun owners, your Legislature is coming for your firearms with a longer leash, a faster trigger, and zero obligation to make you whole. Contact your state rep and senator **today** at leg.mn.gov. The NRA and the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus need bodies in this fight—and your elected officials need to hear the word *no* while there's still time to say it.

Watch this one closely. If it passes in Minnesota, your state is next on the list.