Walz’s Defeat Is Sportmen’s Alliance’s Victory

Gov. Tim Walz really, really wanted gun control this session. He wanted it so bad, he could taste it as he sashayed about the governor’s mansion. Unfortunately for him, he yet again came up short.

He really should be getting used to that by now.

Minnesota House Republicans held the line and kept the troubling bills from passing, and while Walz is really bummed out about it, the Sportsmen’s Alliance is celebrating.

Minnesota’s 2026 legislative session adjourned sine die at midnight on Sunday, May 18. Thanks to your relentless grassroots advocacy, Governor Walz’s gun control wish list was completely defeated.

Radical anti-sportsmen lawmakers threw every dirty trick in the political playbook at us this year. They repeatedly rebranded and hid massive gun control packages under shifting bill numbers to sneak them across the finish line undetected. Despite their non-stop maneuvering, our heritage stood firm. All key anti-hunting and firearm bans failed to pass.

Here is the breakdown of the major bills we monitored, fought, and successfully defeated together:

 Defeated: The “Gun Control Wish List” Omnibus Package
Anti-gun politicians spent the final days of the session frantically attempting a game of legislative shell games. They moved a massive gun control package through a series of different bill vehicles, including SF 3655, SF 4067, HF 5140, HF 5160, and HF 4081, hoping to slide it to Governor Walz’s desk in the midnight chaos. HF 4081 was specifically used as a cynical, backdoor procedural “end-run” through the House Judiciary Committee to bypass earlier deadlocked committee votes. Had this sweeping, recycled package passed, it would have devastated Minnesota hunters by enacting:

• A total ban on modern sporting and hunting rifles.
• A ban on standard-capacity ammunition magazines holding over 17 rounds.
• Bans on homebuilt firearms and common factory-installed trigger components.
• Severe expansions of “Red Flag” laws and limits on your fundamental right to self-defense.

This is just one of the bullet points of defeats for Walz, but it’s really the big one.

They’re also happy about one legislative win, which will protect crossbow hunting permenantly in the state. I understand why they’re happy, since I love to hunt with a crossbow.

But the omnibus gun control package was the big victory for everyone in Minnesota, except for Walz and his cronies.

There was nothing about that which would make anyone safer. It was nothing but a gun grab that focused on firearms that are used for lawful purposes orders of magnitude more often than they’re used for criminal actions, as well as the standard capacity magazines, and generally just make everyone’s life more difficult and less safe.

As it stands, Walz is on his way out of office. We don’t know who will win in November, but if it’s another anti-gun Democrat, many of these provisions will be back for consideration. No one should rest on their laurels, but should do what they can to keep such a person from moving into Walz’s seat.

Do that and it won’t matter about much of the rest.

Take the state Senate and gain full control of the House, also, and then you get the chance to make some real, positive changes instead.

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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