1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to public safety; firearms; clarifying that a slide-fire stock for a 
1.3 	semiautomatic firearm is a trigger activator;amending Minnesota Statutes 2016, 
1.4 	section 609.67, subdivision 1.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2016, section 609.67, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
1.7 		Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) "Machine gun" means any firearm designed to discharge, 
1.8 	or capable of discharging automatically more than once by a single function of the trigger.
1.9 	(b) "Shotgun" means a weapon designed, redesigned, made or remade which is intended 
1.10 	to be fired from the shoulder and uses the energy of the explosive in a fixed shotgun shell 
1.11 	to fire through a smooth bore either a number of ball shot or a single projectile for each 
1.12 	single pull of the trigger.
1.13 	(c) "Short-barreled shotgun" means a shotgun having one or more barrels less than 18 
1.14 	inches in length and any weapon made from a shotgun if such weapon as modified has an 
1.15 	overall length less than 26 inches.
1.16 	(d) "Trigger activator" means a removable manual or power driven trigger activating 
1.17 	device constructed and designed so that, when attached to a firearm, the rate at which the 
1.18 	trigger may be pulled increases and the rate of fire of the firearm increases to approximate 
1.19 	that of a machine gun. For purposes of this section, a device that is designed to use the recoil 
1.20 	of a semiautomatic firearm to enable a shooter to fire multiple shots in rapid succession, 
1.21 	commonly known as a slide-fire or bump-fire stock, is a trigger activator.
1.22 	(e) "Machine gun conversion kit" means any part or combination of parts designed and 
1.23 	intended for use in converting a weapon into a machine gun, and any combination of parts 
2.1 	from which a machine gun can be assembled, but does not include a spare or replacement 
2.2 	part for a machine gun that is possessed lawfully under section 609.67, subdivision 3.

2.3 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective August 1, 2018.