I didn't say they did. The victory was by default because the other side didn't show.
Kinda hard to show up when you die... Miller kicked the bucket and his co-defendant disappeared if I remember correctly.
There was no victory, for either side, default or not. The case was remanded for lack of information.
NO! It was NOT a “victory” for the government. The case was REMANDED to the lower court — i.e. no final decision was ever rendered in the case. The instruction the SC sent to the lower court with the remand was to determine whether the gun in question had a military use, and if it did then the original defendants could NOT be convicted due to their Second Amendment rights. The gun DID have a military use, though the lower court never had occasion to pursue that information, but more to the point, the SC’s holding was that the Second Amendment entitled citizens to keep and bear ANY gun that had a military use, i.e. any gun that they could reasonably in their capacity as members of the citizen militia. THAT was the SC decision in U.S. v. Miller. Do not let the gun-grabbers or misinformed RKBA supporters convince you otherwise. The gun-grabbers have lied about this one a lot, and way to many RKBA supporters have believed them without actually investigating the matter for themselves and learning the basics of how the legal system works in this country.