State Legality Matrix / Assault Weapon Feature Bans / Minnesota
Statute-cited, last verified 2026-07-10
No. No feature-configuration ban; Minnesota only requires a transferee permit or background check for certain semiautomatic military-style assault weapons.
Minn. Stat. § 624.712 defines 'semiautomatic military-style assault weapon,' but the definition drives transfer-permit requirements, not a possession or configuration ban.
There has been no federal assault weapons ban since the 1994 ban expired in 2004; no feature restrictions apply federally to semi-automatic rifles or pistols. The 2023 ATF pistol-brace rule was vacated by the Fifth Circuit and is not enforced, so braced pistols are not SBRs under federal law. Cargill v. Garland (2024) made bump stocks federally legal. Feature bans are entirely a matter of state law.
Scope: State laws restricting semi-automatic rifles, pistols, and shotguns by configuration features: threaded barrels, pistol grips, folding or telescoping stocks, flash suppressors, forward grips, and similar. Magazine capacity limits are tracked as a separate class.
No. No feature-configuration ban; Minnesota only requires a transferee permit or background check for certain semiautomatic military-style assault weapons.
There has been no federal assault weapons ban since the 1994 ban expired in 2004; no feature restrictions apply federally to semi-automatic rifles or pistols. The 2023 ATF pistol-brace rule was vacated by the Fifth Circuit and is not enforced, so braced pistols are not SBRs under federal law. Cargill v. Garland (2024) made bump stocks federally legal. Feature bans are entirely a matter of state law.