As Minnesota lawmakers hammer out a budget bill ahead of a Monday deadline, a Ramsey County judge is considering a challenge to last year’s spending package. A gun rights group argues that a ban on a certain type of trigger that DFLers added to the sprawling 2024 tax plan violates a prohibition on multi-subject bills.
Guns equipped with binary triggers can fire a round both on the pull of the trigger and its release. While they don’t turn a semiautomatic firearm into a machine gun, they effectively double the rate of fire.
Last year Minnesota banned binary triggers after a Burnsville man used a rifle equipped with one to kill two police officers and a paramedic. The shooter — Shannon Gooden — died by suicide. His girlfriend later admitted illegally purchasing that gun and several others for him…