Brian Doherty’s “How the Second Amendment Was Restored: The inside story of how a gang of libertarian lawyers made constitutional history” in the December 2008 issue of Reason is worth reading. It does paint the Heller decision as a victory, but does allude to aspects of this case that some libertarians are less than sanguine about–see some excerpts below: When it was Gura’s turn, he was asked to explain the meaning of the militia reference. He said it was to describe a purpose of the right of the people that the Amendment protected. He angered some in the hardcore gun … Continue reading Doherty on Heller