Minnesota's 5-Year Gun Grab—No Charge, No Conviction, No Paycheck

The state's existing red flag law was already controversial. The new DFL bill doesn't tweak it—it turbocharges it.

Here is exactly what this legislation does: extends Extreme Risk Protection Orders from one year to **five years**, authorizes judges to approve emergency orders on nights and weekends, empowers **any patrol officer on the street**—not just a chief or sheriff—to file a petition on the spot, and wipes out the requirement that departments reimburse gun owners for the fair market value of seized firearms.

Sit with that last one. They take your legally owned property. They owe you nothing. **That is the bill.**

The NRA put it plainly in a letter to the Minnesota Senate committee last week: this is a **gun confiscation** scheme. Not rhetoric—a clinical description of a civil process that strips firearms from people convicted of exactly zero crimes.

The numbers the DFL is celebrating as a "success story" should scare you. In 2024, 138 ERPO petitions were filed. By 2025, that number had more than doubled to 314. Judges approved **96% of them**.

Ninety-six percent. That is not careful due process at work. **That is a rubber stamp with a robe on.**

Richfield Police Chief Jay Henthorne, president of the Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association, is cheering the expansion loudly. He wants beat cops filing petitions on-scene so orders can be "expedited." Translation: less time for you to dial a lawyer before the guns are gone.

Rep. Cedrick Frazier, DFL-New Hope, carries the House bill and frames it as life-saving legislation. What he won't frame it as is what it actually is: a mechanism to erase constitutional rights on the strength of a civil petition, a cooperative judge, and a clean criminal record.

Here is the detail that should alarm every 2A voter in the state: this bill has already cleared committee in the **tied Minnesota House**—which means Republicans helped move it. The DFL-controlled Senate advanced a companion bill through committee the same week. Both chambers are live.

**This is not a warning shot. It is a moving train.**

If you are in Minnesota, go to leg.mn.gov right now, find your state rep and senator, and call them today. Tell them a five-year warrantless gun seizure with no criminal conviction is unconstitutional, un-American, and unacceptable. The NRA is already on record in opposition. Your voice needs to be next—before this hits a floor vote and it's too late to stop it.