However, Heller was 5-4. What about those other four? What happens when the SCOTUS membership swings the other way?
That was my biggest fear about the outcome of the Election just past and now we are on the downward spiral to those horrible SCOTUS changes.
I share your concern. My “prediction” assumes current case law and current court membership, and those could change for the worse. However, life is unpredictable, for both the right and the left. So I try not to be too bold in my predictions and assume conditions I really can’t foresee. Even so, there is a systemic inertia to court precedent, and Heller has a chance of surviving for a while, despite any significant change in court personnel. Time will tell.