ST. PAUL — Several Twin Cities area mayors gathered at the Minnesota Capitol on Tuesday, Sept. 2, to make the case for gun control legislation as Gov. Tim Walz makes plans for a potential special session in the wake of the Annunciation shooting.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter and six other metro area mayors called for statewide and federal bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines — or the ability for cities to pass their own gun reform.

“If state and federal officials are either unwilling or unable to make the necessary change, give us, as mayors of these cities, the ability to do it ourselves,” Frey said Tuesday afternoon. “Right now, we are preempted from virtually any kind of gun reform in the municipalities.”

Frey said he is “not naive” to the

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