Does Minnesota Have an Assault Weapons Ban?

Minnesota Statutes section 624.712 defines a semiautomatic military-style assault weapon through named models and a commissioner-maintained list. That definition feeds transfer-permit and background-check provisions rather than functioning as a generic visible-feature checklist.

Section 624.7132 governs transfers by persons who are not federally licensed dealers, while 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 nationwide 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. 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.