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Last August a Texas federal judge made the same ruling. Texas DPS filed an appeal to the federal Fifth Circuit, however the and drop the appeal.
Texas, at least for now, will start issuing licenses for 18 to 20 year olds.
Since this is a state law and since the circuit court appeal was dropped, it basically only applies to Texas. Therefore there was no ruling from the federal courts other than as it applies to Texas state law.
Will Minnesota decide to appeal to the Eighth Circuit?
The main issue on the appeal is, after the circuit courts comes the US Supreme Court as the final step. Some people have speculated that just like the bump stock ruling in Texas and the Fifth Circuit, some state lawmakers may be worried about this becoming a test case for the entire nation.
If one of the circuit courts makes a ruling, that may very well end up being in a case in front of the Supreme Court.
All wins are potentially temporary or at least up until the Supreme Court issues a ruling. Of course, as we found out in Plessy v. Ferguson, and Roe v. Wade, even the Supreme Court can come back a few decades later to correct and reversed themselves.
So as the title of this thread says, it may be temporary. To not be temporary, it would have to go to the Eighth Circuit court of appeals, which is only one step away from the Supreme Court. So is it temporary? Right now, it only applies to one state but…
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The POTUS wants to Ban so called “Assault Weapons”. He never mentioned this during the two years he owned the House and the Senate. Here’s why.. And He Know It.
Heller (2008), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment protects “arms 'in common use at the time' for lawful purposes like self-defense” and arms that are “typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes.” Such arms are “chosen by American society,” not the government
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