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Is the NRA really ready for post-Heller litigation?

By Douglas A. Berman

Writing here over at Pajamas Media, Glenn Harlan Reynolds has these interesting reflections on the recent NRA national convention:I traveled to Louisville, Kentucky last week, for the National Rifle Association?s annual convention....  People seemed much happier, and more optimistic.... The conventional wisdom, shared by people on both pro- and anti-gun sides of the issue, is that the court will probably find that the Second Amendment protects some sort of individual right to own a gun, that the right is nonetheless subject to reasonable regulation, and that the District of Columbia?s near-total gun ban violates that right by being too extensive and intrusive to be ?reasonable.?  This will then leave to the lower courts, and future Supreme Courts, the question of what other regulations might be unreasonable...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 19, 2008 (boomark / email).