MN Bill Lets Any Cop On Scene Seize Your Guns for 5 Years

This isn't a red flag law anymore. This is a confiscation infrastructure — and it just got street-level teeth.

WTF News already broke the push to stretch ERPOs from one year to five. But buried inside the same bill is a provision that deserves its own five-alarm warning: **any law enforcement officer** can now file an Extreme Risk Protection Order petition on the spot, immediately, with zero sign-off from a chief, sheriff, or anyone above him in the chain of command.

Read that again slowly.

A single patrol officer responding to a wellness call — or a noise complaint, or a nervous neighbor — can initiate the paperwork to erase your Second Amendment rights before he's pulled out of your driveway.

And the man running the 300-department Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association thinks that's something to celebrate.

Richfield Police Chief Jay Henthorne told CBS Minnesota officers can now "make the petition right there and expedite the process." That is not public-safety language. **That is confiscation-infrastructure language.** There is a difference, and every gun owner in Minnesota should know it.

Henthorne also cheered the bill's quiet removal of a provision that required law enforcement to reimburse gun owners fair market value for surrendered firearms. So to recap the new deal: they take your guns faster, hold them longer, and owe you nothing for property the state forcibly removes from your home.

Now look at the scoreboard. Minnesota's existing ERPO law produced 314 petitions in 2025 alone — more than double the first year of the law. Judges granted them **96% of the time**. Police filed the overwhelming majority. This is not a rarely-triggered emergency valve. This is a machine running at full throttle, and the Legislature wants to pour fuel on it.

The bill cleared committee in the tied Minnesota House with bipartisan support — meaning Republicans helped move it forward. A companion bill advances in the DFL-controlled Senate. Rep. Cedrick Frazier (DFL-New Hope) called it legislation that "saved many lives" — the standard PR package, delivered without a single word about due process.

**No trial. No conviction. No reimbursement. Five years.**

The NRA has formally renewed its opposition in a letter to a Senate committee, calling the bill exactly what it is: a gun confiscation scheme that bypasses the courts and punishes people who have never been found guilty of anything.

Minnesota gun owners, this is the play: your legislature is converting every patrol officer into a one-man confiscation unit with a five-year reach — and they're doing it with a quiet committee vote most residents will never hear about.

Contact your state rep and senator **today**. The NRA's state affairs page has resources. The machine doesn't stop on its own.

**Don't wait for the knock.**