Minnesota's 5-Year Gun Grab: No Crime, No Trial, No Guns

They started with one year. Now they want five.

That's the proposal moving through the Minnesota legislature right now, and if you think the creep stops here, you haven't been paying attention.

The state's Extreme Risk Protection Order law only took effect in January 2024. Barely a year old—and already lawmakers are sprinting to supercharge it. In its first full year, 314 ERPO petitions were filed. Judges approved **96% of them**. That's not a judicial safeguard. That's a conveyor belt.

Now the DFL-controlled Senate and a suspiciously bipartisan House committee want to make it worse. Much worse.

Here's what the bill actually does:

— Stretches confiscation orders from one year to **five years** — Lets any patrol officer on the scene file a petition on the spot—no chief, no sheriff, no chain of command required — Forces judges to consider emergency orders **after hours and on weekends**, when due-process scrutiny is at its absolute thinnest — **Eliminates the requirement that police reimburse owners fair market value** for surrendered firearms

Read that last one again. Slowly.

They want to seize your legally owned property—property you committed no crime with—and make you eat the loss. Police departments lobbied to kill the reimbursement requirement because it "costs too much." Your rights are apparently a budget line item.

**No trial. No conviction. No criminal charge.** Just a petition from a family member, a neighbor, or a patrol cop who showed up on a call—and your Second Amendment rights evaporate for half a decade.

Leading the charge is Richfield Police Chief Jay Henthorne, president of the Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association, who calls ERPOs a tool that is "being successful." Successful at what, Chief? Stripping constitutional rights from people who haven't been charged with anything isn't success—it's a dress rehearsal for something much darker.

Rep. Cedrick Frazier, DFL-New Hope, is carrying the bill in the House, billing it as a life-saving measure. What he won't mention: the NRA has already sent the Senate committee a letter calling this proposal exactly what it is—a gun confiscation scheme that punishes innocent people before any crime is committed.

And here's the detail that should make every Minnesota gun owner's blood run cold: the bill cleared committee in a **tied Minnesota House**. That means Republicans crossed the aisle. Gun owners in those districts deserve to know exactly who voted against them—by name.

This is the Bloomberg playbook, executed with patience and precision. Pass a red flag law. Normalize it. Then expand it, quietly, incrementally, until no meaningful barrier stands between the government and your firearms. One year becomes five. One petition source becomes any cop on scene. One reimbursement protection disappears. Then the next one. Then the next.

**They don't need to repeal the Second Amendment. They just need to make it unenforceable—one incremental expansion at a time.**

The NRA is already on record. The question now is whether Minnesota gun owners are loud enough, fast enough, to stop this before it gets a floor vote.

Contact your Minnesota state representative and senator today. A five-year confiscation order issued without a criminal conviction is unconstitutional on its face—and every member of that legislature needs to know that gun owners across the state are recording every single vote.

Watch this one. The next expansion is already being written.