On February 12, the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, along with the Upper Midwest Law Center (UMLC), filed suit against the state of Minnesota and recent Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz for an omnibus bill passed in the previous session with an Article that made the possession of binary triggers a felony crime.
The complaint, entitled, Minnesota Gun Owners v. Walz, was filed in the Second Judicial District Court in the County of Ramsey.
The main gist of the bill argues that the ban on a particular type of trigger doesn’t belong in a catch-all, state financing bill, and states:
Banning a type of gun trigger has nothing to do with “the operation and financing of state government.” It violates Article IV, section 17 of the Minnesota Constitution for the Legislature to pass a single bill that embraces both.
“In passing a sprawling, nearly two-thousand-page bill packed with provisions touching all corners of state government, the Minnesota Legislature blatantly violated the single-subject clause of our Constitution,” said Bryan Strawser, Chair of the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus. “By doing so, they pushed through a gun control provision banning commonly owned firearm triggers in the session’s final minutes–without allowing any meaningful debate,” he added.
“This Frankenstein’s monster of an omnibus bill is the exact kind of fraud on the people of Minnesota that the Constitution aims to prevent, and that’s why it is critical we hold lawmakers accountable with this lawsuit,” said James Dickey, Senior Counsel at UMLC. “This is a clear violation of the single subject provision of the Constitution. The Court should strike the whole thing.”
