The same legislative duo that unsuccessfully pushed last session to repeal the state’s ban on Sunday liquor-store sales is at it again.

Sen. Roger Reinert, a DFLer from Duluth, and Rep. Jenifer Loon, an Eden Prairie Republican, said Thursday that instead of offering a range of choices that could chip away at the law, as they have in the past, they intend this session to go for all-out repeal.

“This legislation allows businesses to be open if they choose, gives consumers the convenience they deserve and moves Minnesota’s antiquated alcohol laws into the 21st Century,” said Reinert in a statement.

Minnesota is one of a dozen states that don’t allow liquor stores to be open on Sundays, and changing that has been a perennial losing cause at the Capitol.

Social conservatives have opposed repeal efforts on moral grounds, and a liquor-store trade group has argued that being open Sundays would add to store owners’ costs without significantly increasing sales.

Reinert and Loon said Thursday they sense greater support for repeal this session, in part because the new speaker of the House, Kurt Daudt, has said he supports Sunday sales, and in part because the issue got a wide airing in the fall elections.