The co-chair of the Minnesota Senate Gun Violence Prevention Working Group was hoping to build consensus on a package of proposed gun laws for an anticipated special legislative session.
However, after the group’s second meeting on Aug. 17, Democratic Sen. Ron Latz said it appears there is little consensus on most of the gun control legislation that was proposed.
The most contentious proposals were “semiautomatic military-style assault weapons” and “high capacity magazine” bans, a mandatory gun storage law, required firearms training, reinstatement of a binary trigger ban, lifting the state’s preemption law, a requirement that all guns have serial numbers, and establishing an Office of Gun Violence Prevention….