Gun Rights Group Wins Legal Battle As Appeals Court Overturns Minnesota Binary Trigger Ban - Tampa Free Press

Minnesota Binary Trigger Ban Struck Down as Gun Control Bill Dies

The Minnesota Court of Appeals just handed Tim Walz and the DFL another gun control defeat. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and his legislative allies in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) party had a rough eight days in May, with the legislative session ending on the 18th without passing their gun control legislation, and a major court loss on the 26th, striking down the “binary trigger” ban snuck into a spending bill in 2024. Walz has not had a good ye…

Gun Rights Group Wins Legal Battle As Appeals Court Overturns Minnesota Binary Trigger Ban - Tampa Free Press

A Minnesota gun control measure was struck down Tuesday after the state’s Court of Appeals ruled that the implementation of a 2024 ban on “binary triggers” violated procedural rules within the state constitution. The restriction had originally been added to an omnibus spending bill by Democratic lawmakers, a move that the court found breached the […] Gun Rights Group Wins Legal Battle As Appeals Court Overturns Minnesota Binary Trigger Ban

Minnesota Court Strikes Down Binary Trigger Ban

The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Tuesday struck down the state's ban on binary triggers, ruling that Democratic lawmakers violated the state constitution when they slipped the firearms restriction into a 2024 tax-and-spending bill at the tail end of the legislative session. Two courts have now rejected the ban on the same grounds: it violated Minnesota's Single Subject and Title Clause, which requires that legislation stick to one topic clearly…