The SCOTUS made the right ruling. As others on this thread have noticed, our Founding Fathers had felony foreign convictions on their records (all convicted in absentia in King George's courts) that would have barred them from owning firearms had this ruling gone the other way.
Another poster made the astute observation that a woman with a car driving felony in Saudi Arabia would be barred from owning a gun in the U.S. had the Supreme Court ruled the other way. Ditto for a felony conviction for carrying a Bible into North Korea.
This was the right ruling, to correctly point out that American Consitutional protections are *NOT* insured in overseas courts, and that therefor convictions overseas in such courts shouldn't extend such tyranny back to our own shores.
Ominously, without Chief Justice Rehnquist to inject sanity into the deliberations, the Court managed to get to the right decision by taking the wrong ideological path, however. Our remaining non-Rehnquist conservatives sided blindly with our Justice Department attorney, whereas the other 5 reactionists simply took the opposite side.
It's good that Rehnquist is back; it's also clear that we will miss him when he's gone.
...And it is more important than ever that we get real *Judges*, not ideological activists, onto this Supreme Court (and soon)...making the current Senate fight over judicial appointments even more important after the *way* that this (fortunately) correct SCOTUS ruling was achieved.