Last week's decision was never really in doubt. Ever since the court's 2008 decision in Heller v. District of Columbia, in which the three-decades-old ban on firearms in the nation's capital was struck down based on a ruling that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to possess a firearm, most legal scholars anticipated the court would apply the same principle to a state or city gun ban. What was in doubt was the reasoning the court would choose.
