The Minnesota legislature is considering HF 3433. HF3433 contains several significant infringements on the rights protected by the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. The bill was introduced in the Minnesota House of Representatives on February 17, 2026. HF 3433 has been referred to the Minnesota House of Representatives Committee on Public Safety Finance and Policy. 35 members of the House have signed up as authors of the bill.
HF3433 bans a long list of firearms by name, bans firearms by specific features, requires people who desire to keep any of the firearms specified to register them, store them in accordance with requirements to be adopted, and agree to allow police to inspect the storage system. Registration will be required to be renewed every three years, and the firearms will only be allowed to be kept on the property of the individual. In addition, those firearms would only be allowed to be fired on licensed firing ranges.
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🔴 HF 3433 – Semi-auto rifle ban (felony possession, registration scheme, warrantless inspections)
🔴 HF 3402 – Magazine ban (>10 rounds, no grandfathering, prison… pic.twitter.com/GYOZloTeuu— MN Gun Owners Caucus (@mnguncaucus) March 3, 2026
Included in the list of specific features are items that sweep into the definition millions of common firearms owned by large numbers of Minnesota citizens at this time. Included in the definition of “Semiautomatic military-style assault weapon” are:
(2) semiautomatic pistol or any semiautomatic, centerfire, or rimfire rifle with a fixed magazine that has the capacity to accept more than ten rounds of ammunition;
The above definition includes enormous numbers of .22 rimfire semi-automatic rifles such as the Marlin model 60, Remington models Nylon 66, 550, 552, Winchester models 190, 290, and 77, and many other models of the popular tube-fed, semi-automatic .22 design.
In addition, the ban includes semi-automatic pistols with common features such as a threaded barrel:
(3) semiautomatic pistol that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine and has one or more of the following:
(v) a threaded barrel capable of accepting a barrel extension, flash suppressor, forward hand grip, or silencer;
The above includes many common and highly regarded pistols owned by millions of people across the United States, including models from Ruger, KelTec, Sig Sauer, Taurus, Smith & Wesson, FN, Walther, and many more.
If you swap out a threaded barrel for a non-threaded barrel, you could be in compliance, as long as you do not keep the threaded barrel. This provision in the bill makes it illegal to possess parts that could convert a firearm into what the legislation broadly defines as a “semiautomatic military-style assault weapon.” As included in the bill:
(6) conversion kit, part, or combination of parts from which a semiautomatic military-style assault weapon can be assembled if those parts are in the possession or under the control of the same person.
The 35 authors of the bill are almost half of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party representatives in the Minnesota House. The DFL is the Minnesota version of the Democratic Party in the rest of the United States. The Minnesota Legislature is almost evenly split at this time, with a one-vote majority belonging to the DFL Party. In the Senate, 34 DFL to 33 Republicans. In the House, the parties are tied with 67 representatives each.
HF 3433 was introduced on February 17, 2026, and referred to the House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee. The bill received a committee hearing on February 24, 2026, where members took recorded votes on motions related to the bill’s referral, resulting in a 10–10 tie. No floor votes have been taken on the bill. The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus has notified its members about the bill. A hearing was held in the committee. As of this writing, there have not been any recorded floor votes on HF3433.
It is unlikely this draconian and almost certainly unconstitutional bill will pass the Minnesota Legislature this session. The parties are so evenly split that a highly controversial bill such as HF 3433 will attract enough attention from Second Amendment supporters to peel off a few DFL votes.
Second Amendment supporters in Minnesota are well organized and active.
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About Dean Weingarten:
Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973. He taught the Arizona concealed carry course for fifteen years until the goal of Constitutional Carry was attained. He has degrees in meteorology and mining engineering, and retired from the Department of Defense after a 30 year career in Army Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation.
