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Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. 2024 ‘Registration in Minnesota.’ Owner Responsibilities. San Francisco, CA: Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. 22 December

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Registration of Firearms in Minnesota

Minnesota law stipulates that no provision of law "requires or authorizes the registration, documentation, collection, or providing of serial numbers or other data on firearms or on firearms' owners."

The Minnesota Commissioner of Health is prohibited from collecting data on individuals regarding lawful firearm ownership.

Minnesota allows a person who has received a handgun or semiautomatic military-style assault weapon from a federally licensed dealer to submit a request to the police chief or sheriff who processed the transfer that no record be maintained of the transfer. If the police chief or sheriff receives such a request, he or she must return the report of the transfer to that person as soon as possible. Thereafter, no state government employee or agency may maintain a record of the transfer that identifies the transferee…

[Editor's note: The Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence regularly updates its webpages with new data as US gun regulation evolves state by state. For the most up-to-date information on US gun laws, please refer to the Giffords URL below]

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