Courts would use one process for firearm restrictions

Courts must order a person subject to a covered firearm ban to transfer or document the person's firearms, and must review compliance. This applies to people subject to firearm bans or transfer orders under sections 260C.201, 518B.01, 609.2242, 609.749, or 629.715. Transfers may be permanent or temporary, but a lifetime ban requires a permanent transfer. A transfer to a third party must occur through local law enforcement or a monitored safe zone, and the third party may not live with the subject. The subject must file proof of transfer or a declaration stating that the subject owns or possesses no firearms. Courts may waive the compliance hearing when credible proof of compliance has been submitted. The court must set a transfer deadline based on the person's custody status and the location of the firearms, and generally must hold a compliance hearing within ten business days after issuing the transfer order.

People filing certain protection petitions must describe the firearms and firearm locations they believe the respondent possesses. This applies to petitions involving a child needing protection or services and petitions for domestic-abuse protection. The description is required only to the best of the petitioner's knowledge. A court may not dismiss either petition solely because the petitioner did not provide a firearm description or location. The firearm information must be included when the petition is filed.

A judge may require a released person to surrender firearms, dangerous weapons, and firearm permits, with local law enforcement keeping an inventory. This applies to a person released in a criminal case when the judge imposes firearm surrender as a release condition. The surrender must generally follow the transfer process in section 518B.03. Law enforcement must preserve the items and return them after acquittal, dismissal, or no charges; after conviction, return depends on a court order or restoration of civil rights. A firearm connected to a designated offense may be forfeited. The surrender condition applies during release, and return occurs upon acquittal, dismissal, no charges, a qualifying court order, or discharge from probation with restored civil rights.