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609.67.1

Statute ID: 20052

Statute Function ID: 40024

Machine Guns & Short - Barreled Shotguns - Definitions

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Statute Number:

609.67.1

Enactment Date:

May 24, 2024

Effective Date:

Jan 1, 2024

Expiration Date:

Repealed?:

Summary Text:

Machine Guns & Short - Barreled Shotguns - Definitions

Statute ID:

20052

Created:

Dec 31, 2024 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Updated:

Dec 31, 2024 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Last Update Action:

Added

Legal Analyst Comment:

Amended 2024 C127 Art19 Sect2; Adds (d)(3)

Summary Text:

Machine Guns & Short - Barreled Shotguns - Definitions

Link to MN Statute Text:

https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/609/67.html

Legislative Session:

2024 - Regular

Session Law Text?:

Statute text last updated on:

Dec 31, 2024

(a) "Machine gun" means any firearm designed to discharge, or capable of discharging automatically more than once by a single function of the trigger.

(b) "Shotgun" means a weapon designed, redesigned, made or remade which is intended to be fired from the shoulder and uses the energy of the explosive in a fixed shotgun shell to fire through a smooth bore either a number of ball shot or a single projectile for each single pull of the trigger.

(c) "Short-barreled shotgun" means a shotgun having one or more barrels less than 18 inches in length and any weapon made from a shotgun if such weapon as modified has an overall length less than 26 inches.

(d) "Trigger activator" means:

(1) a removable manual or power driven trigger activating device constructed and designed so that, when attached to a firearm, the rate at which the trigger may be pulled increases and the rate of fire of the firearm increases to that of a machine gun; 

(2) a device that allows a semiautomatic firearm to shoot more than one shot with a single pull of the trigger or by harnessing the recoil of energy of the semiautomatic firearm to which it is affixed so that the trigger resets and continues firing without additional physical manipulation of the trigger; or

(3) a device that allows a firearm to shoot one shot on the pull of the trigger and a second shot on the release of the trigger without requiring a subsequent pull of the trigger.

(e) "Machine gun conversion kit" means any part or combination of parts designed and intended for use in converting a weapon into a machine gun, and any combination of parts from which a machine gun can be assembled, but does not include a spare or replacement part for a machine gun that is possessed lawfully under section 609.67, subdivision 3.