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A Minnesota gun-rights organization has fought a legal battle with St. Paul in state court for the past six months, arguing that the city unlawfully passed a ban on modern semiautomatic firearms.<\/p>\n

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The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus (MNGOC) the capital city in November after it passed the ordinance targeting so-called \u201cassault weapons\u201d \u2014 which St. Paul drafted to only take effect if the state\u2019s firearms preemption law is repealed. The gun-rights organization argued that the city should not be allowed to keep the measure on the books due to the \u201cprofound legal uncertainty\u201d that \u201cchills the present exercise of their fundamental right to keep and bear arms,\u201d according to the . (RELATED: Liberal Court Unleashes \u2018Unserious Screed\u2019 Against Conservative-Majority Supreme Court)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe St. Paul City Council knowingly passed Ordinance 25-65 (the \u2018Ordinance\u2019), creating a new chapter of the city\u2019s legislative code, Chapter 225A, that extensively regulates and bans the possession, transport, and sale of a wide range of common firearms, magazines, and accessories, and further purports to ban the carrying of firearms by permit-holders in numerous public places,\u201d the complaint says. \u201cThe City attempted to shield this illegal ordinance from judicial review by including a provision stating that it will only take effect upon the future repeal or amendment of the general preemption law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Minnesota District Judge Leonardo Castro rejected requests by the gun-rights group for a and a . In May, he to dismiss the lawsuit, noting that gun owners would still have to comply with the ordinance despite uncertainty about whether it would be enforced.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis court concludes that Plaintiffs have pleaded sufficient facts to support a present and concrete controversy,\u201d Castro wrote in the order denying St. Paul\u2019s motion to dismiss. <\/p>\n

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Democratic St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n

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MNGOC General Counsel Rob Doar said that the group\u2019s strategy was affected by past experience with litigation in state courts. (RELATED: Blue State Court Tosses Out Trigger Ban Tim Walz, Democrats Snuck Into Bill)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have had more success when the case can be decided on other legal grounds. For example, we recently prevailed in a lawsuit against Tim Walz challenging Minnesota\u2019s binary-trigger ban because the Legislature violated the Minnesota Constitution in the way the bill was passed,\u201d Doar told the DCNF.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat is also important here because the St. Paul case is not really a Second Amendment case,\u201d Doar continued. \u201cOur argument is that Minnesota law preempts local gun-control ordinances. The Legislature has said firearm regulation should be uniform statewide, and cities generally cannot create their own separate gun laws.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doar also pointed out that for the last 15 years, Democrats have been appointing judges due to their control of the governor\u2019s mansion since Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty left office after the 2010 midterm elections.<\/p>\n

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