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That said, thus far, handgun regulations are the most easily struck down under Heller & McDonald.

The Heller decision wasn't based on textualism, though that argument holds true as well.

As I said, guns are effectively illegal in the Boston area, and Heller did fuck all to change that.

Then again, there's been a whole lot of lawsuits to enforce state preemption; that's not Heller based, but it is of course done in the courts.

The Supreme Court of the United States and most legal scholars (post- Heller ) agree that the justification for the Second Amendment is not a prescribed limitation.

Chicago just applied Heller to the states and specifically Chicago, and further Federal court action, not appealed to the Supreme Courts, enforced a shall issue concealed carry regime on the state...

You're probably not wrong, but to put my earlier comments into light, Morton Grove was one of the ones who reversed their position legislatively as a result of the Heller decision.

At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history.

From its nadir in ~1994 with the federal Assault Weapons Ban, you've seen that ban expired, numerous states liberalize their rights to bear arms (either concealed, or since 2009 or so openly), and the Supreme Court rule in Heller that the 2nd amendment is a protection of an individual right.

Reminds me of Dunbar in Joseph Heller's Catch-22: "Do you know how long a year takes when it's going away?" Dunbar asked Clevinger.

Chicago just applied Heller to the states and specifically Chicago" Correct.

C., in its recent Heller judgment, interprets "arms" as "weapons".

The original text is only marginally meaningful, post- Heller, as the interpretation that individuals may own and bear arms (specifically semi-automatic handguns - presented as those in " common use ") is now law - carrying the same weight as if it were written two hundred years ago.

Heller contained this paragraph: We also recognize another important limitation on the right to keep and carry arms.

Would you consider increasing the sample size to 3 because of the fictional Snowden in Catch-22 by Joseph Heller?

Heller and McDonald were nice, but have resulted in very few changes on the ground, nor in the political debate.