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Originally Posted by Broadsword2004
How can we be so sure that the SCOTUS will strike down the Chicago ban?
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Because it would be really difficult for the majority in the Heller case to turn right around and say that the same individual rights afford to residents of DC don't apply to the states. It's not a 100% thing but it's probably as close as you are going to get considering some of the questions Kennedy (the most like of the five to vote against it) asked during the Heller hearings. IIRC during one of his questions he asked Alan Gura if he thought Heller logically would extend to the states. He was already starting down that path mentally even before they voted.