MN Dems Want 5-Year Gun Grabs—No Crime, No Pay, No Mercy

The state's two-year-old gun confiscation law was already a threat to due process. The new version is a five-alarm fire.

Here is what the expanded ERPO bill actually does: stretches confiscation orders from one year to **five years**, opens the courthouse 24/7 so judges can approve orders after hours and on weekends with zero waiting period, and strips the requirement that police chiefs or sheriffs sign off—now any individual patrol officer can file a petition on the scene, in real time, before you can say a word.

And when they take your firearms? The bill kills the requirement that the state reimburse you fair market value.

**They want your guns, your rights, and your money—and they want to give nothing back.**

The numbers CBS Minnesota is celebrating as a success story should stop every gun owner in this state cold. In 2024, 138 ERPO petitions were filed. By 2025, that figure exploded to 314. Judges granted those orders at a **96 percent clip**.

That is not a careful, deliberative due-process system. That is a rubber-stamp factory—and Democrats want to run it around the clock, seven days a week.

Rep. Cedrick Frazier, DFL-New Hope, carries the House version and calls it lifesaving legislation. What he will not tell you: not one of these orders requires a criminal conviction, a formal charge, or even an arrest. A neighbor with a grudge, a family member in a messy divorce, or a patrol officer having a bad shift can set in motion a process that strips your Second Amendment rights for up to five years.

No crime. No trial. No conviction. Just a petition and a judge who statistically says yes before the ink dries.

The Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association—representing 300 department heads—backs the expansion aggressively. Their argument: reimbursing gun owners is too expensive, and on-scene officers should be able to file paperwork immediately, before any pushback can organize. Convenience for the state. Constitutional catastrophe for you.

The NRA called it exactly what it is in a letter to the Senate committee: a **gun confiscation law**. Full stop.

Now here is the gut punch that should make your blood run cold: the bill cleared committee in the DFL-led Senate and then passed out of the tied Minnesota House—with **bipartisan support**. Some Republicans voted to advance your disarmament.

**Remember their names.**

The full House vote is imminent. If this passes and gets signed into law, Minnesota gun owners will face the most aggressive red-flag regime in the state's history—one built for speed, scale, and zero accountability to the people it disarms.

This is the blueprint other blue-state legislatures are watching right now. What happens in St. Paul does not stay in St. Paul.

**What you do right now:** Contact your Minnesota state representative and senator today. The NRA-ILA has a direct contact tool at nraila.org. If you are in Minnesota, show up to a hearing. Make noise. The clock is running—and the other side already has a 96-percent success rate.