Promising success for a bill her predecessor tried with all his might to ram through, Minnesota Gov. Elect Amy Klobuchar (DFL) assured her supporters in her first press conference since her victory last week that popular sporting rifles and standard-capacity magazines are on the chopping block.
“The gun safety bill is going to get passed,” Klobuchar declared, “And I am so excited to be working with the leaders on this.”
State leaders’ response to unhinged shooting was to target gun rights
It was August 27, 2025, when a shooting suspect opened fire at Annunciation Catholic School, killing two children and injuring 14 others. Despite the shooter leaving behind horrifying messages dismissing the children’s lives, Minnesota leaders responded by targeting the firearms–a rifle, a shotgun, and a pistol–used in the massacre.
Outgoing Gov. Tim Walz (D) made this heavy-handed response a centerpiece of his administration but could not push it through.
Klobuchar has no such worries. The legislation, besides banning semi-automatic rifles, magazines, and so-called “ghost guns,” cleared the Minnesota Senate by a single vote but was stymied in the evenly divided House.
Minnesota’s Second Amendment battles are only beginning
The Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate became the first woman elected as state governor, and she will enjoy DFL majorities in both chambers that should ease her extreme gun control agenda along.
Klobuchar anticipates another heated battle over “assault weapons” and conceded there could be “some changes” to the finished product. But as for the bans on modern sporting rifles and their accompanying magazines, she expressed her hope that these features “will remain in place.”
She and her ilk will not rest if they succeed in these initial measures after getting the green light from deeply divided state voters. Instead, Minnesota’s law-abiding citizens will see even more efforts to restrict their right to keep and bear arms.
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