Minnesota's Red Flag Law Just Got Meaner—Here's How Bad

The state that stripped gun rights from 314 people in 2025 alone—up from 138 the year before—wants to do it harder, faster, and for five times as long.

Bills advancing in both chambers would stretch Extreme Risk Protection Orders from one year to **five years**, authorize judges to sign off on emergency seizures 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and let **any patrol officer on any shift** file a petition on the spot. No chief's approval. No sheriff sign-off. The rookie who pulled you over can now initiate a process that disarms you for half a decade.

**That is not a tweak. That is a power grab.**

Here's the number you need to tattoo on your brain: in the first year of Minnesota's red flag law, judges approved **96% of all ERPO petitions**. Not 60%. Not 75%. Ninety-six percent. When a court says yes to virtually everything that crosses its desk, you don't have due process—you have a formality dressed up in a robe.

And the pace is only accelerating. 138 orders in 2024. 314 in 2025. The math is not your friend.

Buried in the fine print is something that should make every gun owner's blood run cold: the bill quietly **kills the requirement that law enforcement reimburse fair market value** for seized firearms. They take your guns, they owe you nothing, and your case can now drag on for years while you wait for a system that already rubber-stamps 96% of petitions to give you a fair hearing.

**They get your guns. You get the bill. And you get to wait.**

The Richfield Police Chief—who also chairs the Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association—is openly celebrating the expansion, calling it a "tool that's being successful." Successful at what? Confiscating firearms from people **charged with no crime**. No arrest. No conviction. No trial. Just a one-sided petition reviewed by a judge who, under the new rules, might be signing off at 2 a.m. on a Saturday.

The NRA called it exactly what it is in front of a Senate committee: a **gun confiscation law**. That framing isn't rhetoric—it's the operational reality of a system designed to move faster than your ability to fight back.

The original 2023 law passed with zero Republican votes. Now, with a tied House, a small number of Republicans are reportedly providing the bipartisan cover Democrats need to push this across the finish line. Watch that closely. **The people handing over that cover have names, and those names will matter in the next election.**

Rep. Cedrick Frazier, DFL-New Hope, carries the House version. Remember it.

CBS Minnesota wrapped this story in the language of public safety and responsible governance. Don't let the framing do the work it's designed to do. What they described is a legal mechanism where a neighbor with a grudge, an ex-partner with an agenda, or an officer having a rough shift can set in motion a **five-year firearms ban against you**—before you've been accused of anything, let alone convicted.

**If you live in Minnesota, your window to stop this is closing.** Contact your state House and Senate representatives today and tell them to kill this bill. Find your rep at leg.mn.gov. A House floor vote could come any day.

This is the blueprint anti-gun legislators across the country are watching. If it passes in Minnesota with bipartisan support, expect to see it in your state next. **Stay locked in.**