[BuckeyeTexan]

Any guesses? "Due process" or "privileges and immunities?"

[Oldpuppymax]

Of course this case is a true no brainer for anyone who has read the Constitution, understands the intent of the Founders or has respect for the rights of the American people. Tragically, that EXEMPTS four of the SC justices!!

[mad_as_he$$]

Coin flip at this point. This court is currently a wild card. Scalia could try to walk the middle like he did in Heller. IMHO not good. We need a very strong ruling in favor of the SA.

[mad_as_he$$]

Coin flip at this point. This court is currently a wild card. Scalia could try to walk the middle like he did in Heller. IMHO not good. We need a very strong ruling in favor of the SA.

[rellimpank]

-—hoping for the best, but realistically remembering the words of Neal Knox about thirty years ago that you don’t tell the SCOTUS what to do and you don’t know what it is going to do-—

[paratrooper82]

What part of “shall not be infringed” don’t the State and Federal Governments understand?

[M Kehoe]

Any guesses? "Due process" or "privileges and immunities?"

Both, believe it or not. Then again, I don't care.

As you know, the right of self defense is sacrosanct. Government really doesn't have a say. God has already decided.

5.56mm

[zeugma]

Having read Heller, and the questions/comments made during oral arguments, I'll go on the record and say the result will essentially be this:

1. The right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental right
2. It is 'incorporated' and thus binding upon the states
3. States may enact some "reasonable" regulations, but we won't tell you ahead of time what they are. (This is a part of the never-ending extension of the full-employment-for-lawyers act.)
   
4. No mention whatsoever will be made of Letters of Marque and Reprisal (this is almost laughably unbelievable if you consider the history of same and how it relates to that which we citizens were supposed to be able to 'keep' and 'bear'.)
5.  The individual law in question may well be stuck down, but, like in D.C., it won't affect the fact that you essentially can't arm yourself in Chicago. The city will set up such a rube goldberg-like maze that it will take you 10 years to negotiate it.
   
6. End result: pretty words. no change in the status quo.