Guns, Fraud, ICE: Bad Gangster Movie or Minnesota’s Upcoming Political Session?

When I grew up, Minnesota was the kind of state where you figured nothing much happened. Sure, sports were a thing, obviously, but the Vikings couldn’t even win a Super Bowl–then again, neither can my Failcons, so who am I to judge–and it was just one of those states that was kind of there.

These days, it’s the epicenter of pretty much everything wrong with this country. If you need violence to break out anywhere, it’ll probably start in Minnesota.

And as they start their legislative session there, it seems that the main focuses are going to be the mountains of fraud that have been uncovered, ICE operations in Minneapolis, and, oh yeah, gun control.

Typical.

Today, the Minnesota Legislature begins the 2026 legislative session. From now through May 18, state legislators will be holding hearings and taking votes on some of the most pressing political issues of the day.

At present, the Minnesota House of Representatives is evenly split with 67 Republicans and 67 Democrats. Meanwhile, the Minnesota Senate has a one-vote DFL majority. Given this, any legislation that passes will need bipartisan support.

Last year, Minnesota lawmakers passed a $66 billion budget that funds state government through June of 2027. However, even-numbered years in the state legislature, which are typically referred to as “policy years,” are very different.

Without the need to fund Minnesota’s many government agencies and programs, legislators use even-numbered years to focus on any and all policy issues. This year, fraud, ICE, and gun control are likely to dominate the business of the legislature.

We’re not going to get into ICE or fraud here, because that’s not what we do.

So, let’s look at gun control for a moment.

In the wake of last year’s tragic shootings involving the Hortman family and Annunciation Catholic School, Democrats in the legislature and Gov. Tim Walz issued new calls for more gun control laws.

After the shootings, Walz proposed a special session of the state legislature to pass a series of new gun-related bills.

Walz and Democrat leaders wanted to ban many different types of guns they refer to as “assault weapons,” outlaw “high-capacity magazines,” and eliminate the ability for Minnesotans to build their own firearms from various gun parts.

In past sessions, DFLers have also pushed bills that increases gun storage requirements and bring criminal charges against Minnesotans who fail to report a lost or stolen firearms.

While Walz’s special session on gun control never materialized in 2025, Minnesotans can expect DFLers to bring those ideas up repeatedly during this year’s legislative session.

In other words, the same things Walz has demanded for years now, but still hasn’t gotten.

I do think that after the Abundance Catholic School shooting in Minneapolis, there’s a higher likelihood of an assault weapon ban and magazine restrictions. 

And I think past failures will return to the table.

However, for a state that just screams progressive politics these days, its legislature is remarkably balanced. It’s split right down the middle in the House, and DFL has just a one-vote majority in the Senate.

That means they’ll need at least some Republicans to cross the aisle to vote with them.

After the Catholic school shooting, some GOP members might be willing to cross on the assault weapon ban and magazine limits, but that’s not a slam dunk at all. It’s really just predicated on how upset people there are about that shooting, for obvious reasons.

Something not mentioned in this piece, though, is a secondary role that gun control may well be pressed to serve.

We know that the media is kind of like a small child. When you dangle a shiny object in front of it, it gets distracted from everything else and focuses on that thing. Gun control has been used as a shiny object like this before, by both Justin Trudeau and former Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam. Both faced similar controversies for black or brownface, then announced they were focused on gun control, and the media dropped the subject.

Now, I see gun control being used to deflect away from the massive fraud we’ve seen out of Minnesota–why didn’t I think to open a daycare with no students at all? Such a missed opportunity–so that any attempts at addressing it are low-key and minimal, and the media will be too focused on gun control to care.

I’d love to think I should get fitted for a new aluminum foil cap for thinking that, but I’ve seen it way too often to not see the writing on the wall here.

Let’s just hope I’m wrong on that front.

Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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