ST. PAUL — Minnesota health care leaders gathered Thursday at the Capitol to demand that Gov. Tim Walz call a special session to pass gun control legislation over a month after the Annunciation Catholic Church shooting.

Joined by doctors who cared for Annunciation victims, they called for four gun control measures: a ban on assault weapons, a ban on high-capacity magazines, safe storage laws, and the removal of the local preemption law that prohibits cities from enacting local gun control.

“This is no longer a friendly request from their local doctors,” said Dr. Lisa Mattson, president of the Minnesota Medical Association. “This is a demand from the 10s of 1,000s of physicians across the state who know firearm violence for what it is: a public health crisis.”

The doctors in attendanc

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