When the Heller decision came down, it made a few things clear. One was that yes, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. Another was that common, popular firearms could not be banned. In the case of Heller, it was a handgun ban, but the Court made it very clear that other such bans were also an issue.
However, despite the fact that the case should have been a game-changer and completely undermined gun control efforts for the next century, it didn’t. Gun…