With Democrats in complete control of the Minnesota legislature for the first time in several years, Gov. Tim Walz has laid out an ambitious agenda of Second Amendment infringements for lawmakers this session, including a ban on “large capacity” magazines, establishing a “red flag” firearm seizure law, raising the age to purchase modern sporting rifles from 18 to 21, and imposing “universal” background checks on all private transfers in the state.

Walz included his anti-civil rights wish list as part of his budget unveiling this week, but used the Monterey Park shootings in California as justification for criminalizing common aspects of the right to keep and bear arms.

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