Does Minnesota Have an Assault Weapons Ban?

Minnesota Statutes section 624.712 defines a semiautomatic military-style assault weapon through named models, and the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension publishes an annual list of the firearms the definition includes. That definition feeds transfer-permit and transfer-report provisions rather than functioning as a generic visible-feature checklist.

Section 624.7132 requires a report of transfer for a pistol or semiautomatic military-style assault weapon unless the transferee presents a valid transferee permit or permit to carry, and section 624.7131 establishes the transferee-permit process. A firearm can therefore trigger a transaction procedure based on its statutory category even when a page's feature tags do not capture the model.

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 courts and is not enforced, but federal SBR classification for a brace-equipped firearm still turns on whether the specific weapon is designed and intended to be fired from the shoulder. Garland v. Cargill (2024) held that a bump stock is not a machine gun under federal law. Feature bans are entirely a matter of state law.

Federal baseline verified 2026-10-20. 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.