A year after a gunman killed two students and wounded dozens at Annunciation Catholic School, Minnesota lawmakers heard testimony from parents, students and first responders yet passed no new limits on certain rifles. Governor Tim Walz had sought a special session for a ban, but the closely split legislature never convened one after Republicans declined to back it, matching federal inaction after the 2012 Connecticut school attack.

A Minneapolis Star-Tribune column by Rochelle Olson called the outcome inadequate. A commentator replied that such measures would expand beyond those rifles, citing California efforts to restrict Glock pistols over illegal conversion devices used by criminals, and that the Second Amendment exists to let citizens resist government if needed, so those rifles function as the contemporary equivalent of muskets for national defense against invasion.