My (baseless) prediction: the Supremes will take the appeal, uphold today’s ruling, and set a precedent that ends Chicago’s ban, maybe NYC’s pseudo-ban, and has little or no immediate effect anywhere else. That’s OK. Establishing the basic right is the first step. Extending it can come later. Brown v. Board of Ed. didn’t happen in a vacuum, either, having been preceded by a series of lesser “separate but equal, OK, but this one ain’t equal” victories.

Now, if the Ninth Circuit would only start displaying some reading comprehension and linear logic…

From the Instapoodle we are served notice of Howard Bashman’s coverage at How Appealing, that the majority opinion of a, “Divided three-judge D.C. Circuit panel holds that the District of Columbia’s gun control laws violate individuals’ Second Am…

They’ve covered all the bases. I love this part:

just as the First Amendment free speech clause covers modern communication devices unknown to the founding generation, e.g., radio and television, and the Fourth Amendment protects telephonic conversation from a “search,” the Second Amendment protects the possession of the modern-day equivalents of the colonial pistol.

This decision addresses almost every anti-individual rights argument I’ve seen–which is very good–it looks like they’ve covered all the bases for when Parker v DC makes it to the USSC.

As for the dissent, (DC isn’t a “State” so the Second doesn’t apply) her argument is addressed and gets shredded by the majority opinion in their dicta–again, a good set-up for the challenge in the USSC.