What makes you think that the supremes will hear the case or more importantly find in favor of the individual right?
Because there is no straight face argument to the contrary, if you look at the opinion. If they reversed, it would be on a standing issue, and not the individual right issue.
And the result is mild (guns in the home for DC residents, no criminal plaintiffs to worry about, etc.)
But it will be easy to find an individual right, and it would be a pathetic embarrassment to the dissenters to argue otherwise.
I just don't share your optimism about the supremes. They have avoided the 2nd amend for decades - probably because they don't want to strengthen individual rights.
But it will be easy to find an individual right, and it would be a pathetic embarrassment to the dissenters to argue otherwise
Remember this is the court that handed down the "pathetic and embarrassing" Kelo decision, apparently without feeling in the least bit embarrassed, so what is totally clear to us may not be so clear to as capricious and arbitrary body as the the supremes.