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HF3976 • 2026

Lost and stolen firearms required to be reported promptly to law enforcement, criminal penalties provided, and money appropriated.

Lost and stolen firearms required to be reported promptly to law enforcement, criminal penalties provided, and money appropriated.

Firearms
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Finke, Greenman, Hollins, Pinto, Moller, Sencer-Mura, Rehrauer, Kraft
Last action
2026-04-07
Official status
Author added Kraft
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Lost and stolen firearms required to be reported promptly to law enforcement, criminal penalties provided, and money appropriated.

Lost and stolen firearms required to be reported promptly to law enforcement, criminal penalties provided, and money appropriated.

What This Bill Does

  • Lost and stolen firearms required to be reported promptly to law enforcement, criminal penalties provided, and money appropriated.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-04-07 House

    Author added Kraft

  2. 2026-03-09 House

    Author added Rehrauer

  3. 2026-03-05 House

    Introduction and first reading, referred to Public Safety Finance and Policy

Official Summary Text

Lost and stolen firearms required to be reported promptly to law enforcement, criminal penalties provided, and money appropriated.

Current Bill Text

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A bill for an act

relating to public safety; requiring lost and stolen firearms to be reported promptly

to law enforcement; providing criminal penalties; appropriating money; proposing

coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 624.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

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[624.7139] LOST OR STOLEN FIREARMS.

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Subdivision 1.

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Duty to report.

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A person who owns, possesses, or controls a firearm

must report the loss or theft of the firearm to a law enforcement agency in the jurisdiction

in which the loss or theft occurred as soon as practicable but not later than within 48 hours

of the time the person knew or reasonably should have known of the loss or theft.

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Subd. 2.

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Penalty.

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(a) A person who violates this section is guilty of a petty misdemeanor.

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(b) A person who violates this section a second time is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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(c) A person who violates this section a third or subsequent time is guilty of a gross

misdemeanor.

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Subd. 3.

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Immunity.

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A person who reports a lost or stolen firearm in compliance with

the requirements of subdivision 1 is immune from criminal prosecution for state law offenses

related to the storage of firearms.

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Subd. 4.

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Report to commissioner of public safety.

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A chief of police or sheriff must

report a lost or stolen firearm to the commissioner of public safety within seven days of

receiving notification of the loss or theft under this section.

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EFFECTIVE DATE.

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This section is effective August 1, 2026, and applies to acts

committed on or after that date.

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Sec. 2.
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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY; APPROPRIATION.
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$36,000 in fiscal year 2027 is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner

of public safety for a reporting system overseen by the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension

to allow chiefs of police and sheriffs to report lost or stolen firearms. This is a onetime

appropriation.

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