Overview

• The working group reviewed 11 DFL bills — including safe-storage rules, bans on assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines, ghost-gun limits, and research funding — without securing GOP support.
• Republican members opposed new firearm restrictions and emphasized school security and mental health services as preferred approaches.
• A late GOP proposal to fund school resource officers for any public or private school received interest for further consideration.
• Gov. Tim Walz said he will call a special session on gun violence, with timing and outcomes uncertain in a Legislature featuring a one-seat DFL edge in the Senate and a tied House.
• About three dozen Republican legislators requested expanded toxicology testing of the Annunciation shooter, including screening for antidepressants and drugs associated with gender-transition therapies.