Once Bush gets 2-3 more conservatives on the bench, the NRA should look for and take cases before them to settle this issue once and for all.
Bush isn't going to get a conservative on the bench before 2003, and then only if he gets 60 conservative Republican senators. But, even if Bush could appoint whom he wished, you might be disappointed by the result. Even Robert Bork, in his book Slouching Toward Gomorrah, says that he's bought the collective right interpretation of the Second Amendment, though he believes that people should be armed as a matter of policy. Nearly all of our appellate courts have issued collective right opinions (see the cases cited in the Government's First Brief in the Emerson Case).You might just find that the legal elite, on either side of the aisle, intends to disarm us peasants by any means possible.