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Tim Walz: “We passed enhanced background checks making sure that people…”

Featuring: Tim Walz, Democratic | Governor of Minnesota

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Gov. Tim Walz hosts debate on gun violence

Published | Video Starts at 11:10

These legislators and the people of Minnesota made a decision back in 2023 that we were going to use data and research and make things safer for people. So We passed enhanced background checks making sure that people who shouldn't have guns don't get them. And we passed something called an extreme risk protection order. And as pastor said, a lot of these deaths are suicides by firearms, and they're in greater Minnesota, in many cases across the state. (11:10–11:15)

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Asserts that Minnesota passed enhanced background checks to prevent ineligible individuals from obtaining firearms.

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