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The honest interpretation of the 14th A. has already decided the outcome of DC v. Heller in Heller's favor. More specifically, John Bingham, the main author of Sec. 1 of the 14th A., had included the 2nd A. when reading the first eight amendments as examples of constitutional statutes containing privileges and immunities that the 14th A. applied to the states. So there is no doubt in my mind that the 2nd and 14th Amendments protect the personal right to keep and bear arms from both the federal and state governments as much as any other constitutional privilege and immunity protects other personal rights.

See the 2nd A. in the middle column of the following page from the Congressional Globe, a precursor to the Congressional Record.

http://tinyurl.com/y3ne4n

Note that the page referenced above is dated for more than two years after the ratification of the 14th Amendment. So Bingham was evidently assuring his colleagues about the scope and purpose of the ratified 14th Amendment.

The bottom line is that the only thing that DC v. Heller is testing is how corrupt the Supreme Court is. Given that the Court decides the case in DC's favor, then it's time, actually long overdue, to peacefully heed Lincoln's advice about government leaders who aren't respecting the Constitution that they have sworn to defend.

"We the People are the rightful master of both congress and the courts - not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." --Abraham Lincoln, Political debates between Lincoln and Douglas, 1858.