{"id":111691,"date":"2025-08-18T17:53:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T22:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111691"},"modified":"2025-08-18T17:53:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T22:53:04","slug":"111691","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111691","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Judge strikes down Minnesota\u2019s binary trigger ban, suggests invalidating 2024 omnibus bill<\/a><\/p>\n

A Ramsey County District Court judge on Monday struck down a 2024 law banning binary trigger devices \u2014 which double the rate of fire of semiautomatic firearms \u2014 as a violation of the state constitution\u2019s rule requiring legislation to be about a single subject.<\/p>\n

Although just the binary trigger ban was struck down, Judge Leonardo Castro used sweeping language about the DFL-controlled Legislature\u2019s violation of the single-subject rule, clearing the way for potential litigation over a bevy of subjects included in the law, from Uber and Lyft driver wages to paid leave provisions.<\/p>\n

The ruling didn\u2019t strictly address the legality of binary triggers, but instead focused on the 1,400-page bill in which the binary trigger ban was included last year. In the final moments of the 2024 session, the DFL-controlled Legislature passed an \u201comnibus\u201d bill \u2014 think: everything but the kitchen sink \u2014 that included 13 separate subjects, including minimum pay rates for Uber and Lyft drivers; alterations to the state\u2019s paid leave program; and changes to make the child tax credit more user-friendly.<\/p>\n

The Minnesota Constitution states \u201cno law shall embrace more than one subject, which shall be expressed in its title.\u201d The purpose is to prevent legislators from steamrolling provisions into big bills with little notice.<\/p>\n

But bills running several hundred pages about a multitude of subjects are common, no matter which party controls the Legislature.<\/p>\n

Castro said in his ruling that the Minnesota Supreme Court has considered dozens of cases challenging the state Constitution\u2019s single-subject clause since 1857.<\/p>\n

The case challenging the binary trigger ban was brought by the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, arguing the 1,400-page omnibus bill in 2024 was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

Castro ruled that the bill included many provisions that had nothing to do with one another.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 2024 Omnibus Bill violates the Single Subject and Title Clause, because, at best, it contains many non-germane parts, and at worst, has no identifiable common theme,\u201d Castro wrote.<\/p>\n

Despite his sweeping language, Castro employed judicial restraint. He refrained from invalidating all the provisions in the 1,400-page bill and only struck down the binary trigger ban. He did so because Minnesota Supreme Court precedent states that courts should favor striking certain provisions rather than invalidating entire bills, he wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut make no mistake, during the late hours of May 19, 2024, lawmaking did not \u2018occur within the framework of the Constitution,\u2019\u201d Castro concluded. \u201cThis Court respectfully suggests that if there has ever been a bill without common theme and where \u2018all bounds of reason and restraint seem to have been abandoned,\u2019 this is it; and if there has ever been time for the \u2018draconian result of invalidating the entire law,\u2019 that time is now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Judge strikes down Minnesota\u2019s binary trigger ban, suggests invalidating 2024 omnibus bill A Ramsey County District Court judge on Monday struck down a 2024 law banning binary trigger devices \u2014 which double the rate of fire of semiautomatic firearms \u2014 as a violation of the state constitution\u2019s rule requiring legislation to be about a single … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courts","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111692,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111691\/revisions\/111692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}