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Board Amends MMA Policy on Firearm Safety
September 18, 2025
The MMA Board of Trustees voted at its September 15 meeting to amend MMA policy on firearm safety, in an effort to address current gaps and simplify existing policy.
The updates include the following:
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revising MMA policy to clarify that the MMA supports the role of physicians in promoting the use of a locking device on all firearms stored in the home. The term “mandating” was removed from the policy, as it no longer applied to the revised policy.
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revising the policy structure so that the two separate buckets for “state level legislation” and “federal legislation” are now combined into one bucket titled “legislation”.
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adoption of new policy supporting a Minnesota ban, and a renewal of the federal ban on the sale and possession by private citizens of assault weapons, hi-powered semi-automatic firearms (including AR-15 and AK-47 style assault rifles), as well as a state-wide ban on high-capacity magazines.
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adoption of new policy supporting a mandate that firearms be stored locked, unloaded, and separate from ammunition.
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