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.”¹

The Minnesota Commissioner of Health is prohibited from collecting data on individuals regarding lawful firearm ownership.²

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.³ 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.⁴

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1. Minn. Stat. § 624.714, subd. 20(d).[↩]
2. Minn. Stat. § 144.05, subd. 5.[↩]
3. Minn. Stat. § 624.7132, subd. 10.[↩]
4. Id.[↩]