[Hacklehead]

“So, with a wink and nudge, the fix is in. It will be declared an individual right that may be reasonably regulated or, as Justice Stevens opined, “It shall not be unreasonably infringed”.

I think that is what the final decision will say. It really wont change or settle anything.

[robertpaulsen]

When the DC Circuit Court declared the right to be an individual right, that was OK. When they declared the right to be fundamental, they went a bridge too far. A law infringing on a fundamental right would trigger strict scrutiny and the DC law probably would not stand.

I believe the U.S. Supreme Court took the case solely to strike down the declaration of a fundamental right.