According to attorney Don Kilmer, the Nordyke v. King lawsuit will be refused further consideration by the Ninth Circuit until the Silveira case's petition for a writ of certiorari to the US Supreme Court is decided. Silveira v. Lockyer, challenging the 26-page assault-weapons regulatory scheme enacted in California in 2000, was defeated in the Ninth Circuit on the basis of the decades-old Hickman v. Block case, in which a three-judge panel of that court held that the Second Amendment secures only a collective, not an individual, right. The petition to the Supreme Court was filed shortly thereafter. The Nordyke v....