Raw Opinion:
Aguila Blanca said,
"BUT ... the question before the court in Heller was the right to maintain an operable firearm in the home. The Supreme Court tends to rule narrowly, so the Heller ruling only addressed the RKBA in the home."
Alan Gura, the attorney for "Heller" realized SCOTUS (Supreme Court Of the United States) seemed to look for any excuse not to take a 2A case and tailored the Heller complaint to "fit" the parameters so that SCOTUS could not refuse. This included the "in the home" issue.
So Gura set things up so that SCOTUS would not find a reason to deny cert (see REF). (Gura, by the way, was not a"gunny," but was merely concerned with the protection of fundamental civil rights, such as 2A.)
Feel free to correct my recollections above.
I have to laugh when some people proclaim "I'll take it all the way to the Supreme Court," not realizing that the whole process is loaded with impediments to "bothering" them, including the granting of "cert." Oh, and the dollars involved. The many, many dollars involved.
Justice costs.
Our My heroes:
Dick Anthony Heller
Alan Gura
Pic credits in properties
Respectfully submitted,
Terry, 230RN
REF ("Cert"):
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/certiorari
United States Supreme Court
Certiorari is most commonly associated with the writ that the Supreme Court of the United States issues to review a lower court's judgment. A case cannot, as a matter of right, be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. As such, a party seeking to appeal to the Supreme Court from a lower court decision must file a writ of certiorari.
(In other words, you request review in the form of a request for certiorari, hoping the Court will grant it. --230RN)
In the Supreme Court, if four Justices agree to review the case, then the Court will hear the case. This is referred to as "granting certiorari," often abbreviated as "cert." If four Justices do not agree to review the case, the Court will not hear the case. This is defined as denying certiorari.