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Minnesota Senate passes comprehensive gun-safety package after emotional debate
Summary
The Minnesota Senate passed Senate File 4067 on May 4, 2026, a package that pairs an assault-weapons and high-capacity magazine ban with school-safety and mental-health funding. The final Senate vote was 34-33 after hours of debate and testimony from families affected by the Aug. 27 Annunciation Church shooting.
Senate File 4067, a sweeping gun-violence-prevention package that combines an assault-style weapons ban with school-safety and mental-health investments, passed the Minnesota Senate on May 4, 2026, by a vote of 34-33.
Senator Z. Mohammed, the bill’s chief author, framed the measure around the Aug. 27 Annunciation Church shooting in Minneapolis and urged the chamber to adopt a layered approach of prevention, intervention and harm reduction. "We need both — banning certain weapons and investing in school safety and mental health," Mohammed said during floor remarks.
The bill includes: a prohibition on certain semiautomatic "military-style" firearms and large-capacity magazines defined by a set of physical features; a ban and criminal penalties for so-called ghost guns and for altering serial numbers; expanded safe-storage requirements so that firearms are not accessible to persons legally prohibited from possessing them; a clarification and reenactment of a binary-trigger ban;…
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