Gun control bills are dead at Minnesota Capitol. Again.

The deaths of two gun-control measures — expanding background checks for sales and creating so-called “red flag” protective orders — were cemented Thursday at the Minnesota Capitol without any actual votes on the ideas themselves.

Both were shot down on the floor of the Senate in procedural votes, and the speaker of the House said Thursday that they’re “dead” in his chamber as well.

The blow for gun-control advocates shouldn’t come as a huge surprise, because Republicans control both chambers, and the prospects for stricter gun laws were always slim.

Nonetheless, called to action following the Parkland, Fla., high school shooting earlier this year, supporters of stricter gun laws pushed hard — and in different ways than previously.

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