The Minnesota legislature is considering HF 3433. HF33 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.
Included in the list of specific features are items which 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:
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(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 many pistols by 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 possession of parts which could convert a firearm into the broad definition of a "Semiautomatic military-style assault weapon" 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.
As of March 2nd, HF3433 has been reffered to the House Public Safety, Finance and Policy committee. No votes have been taken on the bill. The Minnesota Gun Owners, particularly the Gun Owners Caugus has notified its members about the bill. A hearing was held in the committee. Here is a video link to the hearing. As of this writing, there have not been any recorded votes on HF2433.
Analysis: It is unlikely this draconian and almost certainly unconstitutional bill will pass the Minnesota Legislature this session. The parties are so evenly split, a highly controversial bill such as HF 3433 will bring enough attention by Second Amendment supporters to peel off a few DFL votes. Second Amendment supporters in Minnesota are well organized and active.
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