Originally Posted by Frosstbyte

It's a very strange decision on a very strange issue, and no amount of puffery by either side is going to convince me that they're correct about the 2nd Amendment. It's a miserable mess of grammar with an anachronistic purpose. The DC gun ban by any standard of judicial review was unconstitutional simply because it wasn't rationally related to a legitimate government interest. Given the latent ambiguity and anachronism inherent in the amendment itself, I think the justices should have dealt with the issue less directly, striking down the ban as unreasonable and unjustifiable but not within the framework of making it a clearly individual right.

So it goes.