Minnesota’s Senate went whole hog on a laundry list of “dream” anti-gun measures Monday, passing SF 4067 by a party-line vote of 34-33. The so-called "gun violence prevention package" would ban modern sporting rifles like the AR-15, magazines holding more than 17 rounds, home-built firearms, and increasingly common types of firearm triggers.

Beyond those restrictions, SF 4067 goes even further and places new limits on self-defense rights while simultaneously expanding extra-judicial “red flag” laws. It now moves to the House for consideration.

Here’s a short list of some, but not all, of the heavy-handed measures on the move in the Land of 10,000 Lakes:

• Ban on modern sporting rifles and other semi-auto firearms, such as the common AR-15, as well as various pistols and shotguns.
• Ban on magazines holding more than 17 rounds, including standard-capacity handgun and rifle magazines.
• Ban on user-completed firearms, such as unfinished receivers.
• Further restrictions on 3D-printed firearms.
• Ban on popular binary triggers.
• Broader “red flag” laws, expanding who can request the removal of an individual’s Second Amendment rights and extending how long that denial lasts.
• Expanded funding for enforcing “red flag” laws.
• Stricter storage laws for firearms.
• Expansion of gun-free zones, including school-sponsored events.

Minnesota already has volumes of gun laws signed and bound into the state’s legal books, and it even ranks among the states with the lowest gun-related crime rates in the nation. Still, Minnesota Democrats insist these broad additional measures are a groundbreaking move for public safety, especially in schools.

“We could immediately make our schools safer, but Democrats aren’t willing to do that unless they can also take away guns from law-abiding Minnesotans,” said Sen. Andrew Mathews, R-Princeton. “Republicans want to send more money to schools for School Resource Officers, safety infrastructure, and mental health programs to address the root cause of the problem. These are measures that would actually work.”

For now, all eyes turn to the evenly split Minnesota House, where lawmakers have a record of blocking Senate-passed bills like SF 4067.