The majority leader of the Minnesota Senate said Tuesday she expects the chamber will weigh in on proposals to ban assault-style weapons and impose additional restrictions on firearms next year.

Following the seating of two new senators, Senate Majority Leader Erin Murphy said a special session to take up the measures seemed increasingly unlikely but action would resume when lawmakers return in February. Sens. Amanda Hemmingsen-Jaeger, DFL-Woodbury, and Michael Holmstrom Jr., R-Buffalo, were sworn in, bringing the Senate back to its full 67-member complement,

Murphy, DFL-St. Paul, she said there is additional public pressure to add restrictions on guns. That comes after the shooting death of a House DFL leader and wounding of a state senator over the summer and the mass shooting at Annun

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