Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is having an awful 2026. A couple of years ago, he was poised to potentially be Vice President of the United States. Now he’s on his way out of politics following his decision not to run for re-election after the whole Somali day care scandal. That’s OK, though, because his big pet issue of gun control was a winner…only, the big omnibus gun control package failed.
Now, with just a handful of months left in office, Minnesota is settling in to make gun control a campaign issue.
Too bad for Walz and the rest of the Gopher State anti-gunners that the courts don’t take breaks like the legislative branch. That means there was time for at least one more setback for him.
The Minnesota Court of Appeals handed down a major decision for the state’s firearm owners, ruling that a recent ban on binary triggers violates the state constitution. The court affirmed a lower court’s decision that the legislature acted unconstitutionally when it placed the firearms restriction inside a massive, unrelated 2024 omnibus bill.
Under the Minnesota Constitution’s single-subject clause, lawmakers are legally required to keep bills focused on a single topic to prevent “logrolling”—the practice of burying controversial provisions inside giant packages of unrelated legislation. In the case Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus v. Walz, the appeals court agreed with Ramsey County District Court Judge Leonardo Castro that the binary trigger ban was not germane to the core subject of the bill it was attached to. As a result, the provision has been severed from the rest of the bill and remains unenforceable across the state.
While the court completely struck down the trigger ban, it declined to throw out the entire underlying omnibus bill, keeping the rest of the package intact.
Gun rights advocates, who brought the lawsuit forward, celebrated the narrow remedy as a direct win for both transparent lawmaking and the Second Amendment.
The unfortunate thing is that this wasn’t thrown out on Second Amendment grounds, which just opens the door for future legislation of binary triggers in the state, and was instead on the procedural problem of sticking gun control into a spending bill. Still, a win is a win, and this is a win.
And, honestly, the way they did this was sneaky enough to warrant the slap down all on its own, and it’s kind of telling that they did it this way.
“This is the sort of shenanigan used by anti-gunners time and again to conceal something they know would never pass muster in the broad daylight,” said Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “We’re delighted our colleagues at the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, a CCRKBA state affiliate, challenged this sneaky tactic.”
This isn’t an uncommon tactic, either. Throw something controversial into a bill with something that’s considered less controversial and even essential, then when pro-gun lawmakers raise a stink about how they’re not voting for it, it’s suddenly those representatives opposing teacher pay raises or something else. I don’t remember what all was in this particular measure, but this is both common and underhanded as hell.
I’m really glad that the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus fought this one so effectively. Anti-gunners knew what they were doing was illegal. They just didn’t care, and now they’re paying the price.
Editor’s Note: The radical Left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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