“Whether the following provisions — D.C. Code secs. 7-2502.02(a)(4), 22-4504(a), and 7-2507.02 — violate the Second Amendment rights of individuals who are not affiliated with any state-regulated militia, but who wish to keep handguns and other firearms for private use in their homes?”
Seems they agree it is an individual right.
For a great reference on the topic, see:
“SUPREME COURT GUN CASES” (Two Centuries of Gun Rights Revealed) by David B. Kopel, Stephen P. Halbrook, PhD, and Alan Korwin.
There have been lots more cases concerning Gun Rights than I expected. Pay special attention to the Dred Scott v. Sandford (1856). Who would have thought that the Dred Scott Decision would be so important as a Second Amendment Gun Rights Case? Page 149.
RamingtonStall
The Heller case is one of the most important cases of our lifetime and the SCOTUS review will keep millions of Americans on the edge of their seat awaiting the decision and opinions. After decades of infringements on the basic right to self-protection (the most basic right of all living beings), we await the words of nine individuals.
Lives have been lost because individuals could not protect themselves, criminals have thrived by taking advantage of unprotected citizens, good people have suffered fees charged, delays, and official whimsy just to exercise a right, and many Americans have simply been denied a basic right. Now we may find out if the abuses will cease or if our rights enter more prolonged infringement.
Over two centuries of fighting for and championing freedom should, at the least, have affirmed such basic rights. It should never have come to this.
Indeed, especially since there is no reference to a STATE-regulated militia in the text of the Second Amendment.
I read their phrasing of the question presented the same way.
You seem to be correct. The very wording assumes that there are "Second Amendment rights of individuals who are not affiliated with any state-regulated militia." Just as the Second Amendment itself assumes that the "Right of The People to keep and bear arms" exists, and states that it is not to be infringed.
I can imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth over in the Brady camp.