Looks like we need a case similar to Roe vs Wade, using the Congressional Report Neil posted here to get around the Doctrine of Non-Incorporation, and blanketing all states with the Second Amendment. Argue the 'assault' configurations later.
We already have the 14th amendment. We don't need a right or a federal power to enforce it, made up out of a penumbra, it's already there and the Supreme Court is refusing to enforce it.
Personally I'd rather the SC first affirm an individual right, getting that applied to the states should be easy after that.
What I find particularly embittering is reading some of the junk the court did grant cert on. One case could result in a bunch of convicted murders not getting executed, simply because a judge, rather than a jury, imposed the sentence, as provided for under various state laws. This is not a Constitutional question, IMHO. The Court has declared that the penumbral rights of criminals, convicted by a jury as the Constitution specifies, are more important than the rights of upstanding, law abiding, individuals such as Silveira and the co-appellees.
The situtation is really begining to be alot like the one described in this document