SAINT PAUL, Minn. — A coalition of city leaders, including the mayors of Minnesota's four largest cities, lobbied again Tuesday for a change to state law that would allow local municipalities to set their own gun regulations.

At a packed news conference inside the state capitol, Saint Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Rochester Mayor Kim Norton, Bloomington Mayor Tim Busse, and mayors of several major Twin Cities suburbs said their cities are all drafting gun control ordinances that can only take effect if the state legislature repeals a statute known as the "preemption law."

The preemption law, first passed in the 1980s, prohibits municipalities from passing local ordinances that conflict with statewide firearms regulations. In early September, just days after the

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