“[T]his ambivalence is consistent with ACLU history — the ACLU has not been a second-amendment rights organization, historically. Instead, it’s taken a distinctly agnostic view. Interestingly, though, the ACLU has explicitly linked that agnostic approach to Miller. Thus, the stated grounds for the ACLU’s prior agnosticism no longer exist. Yep. One doesn’t have to be Mike O’Shea to notice that about the entire stated legal underpinning for ACLU neutrality has now been, um, blown to smithereens. Heller definitely protects something individual. (How that balances against government interest remains very fuzzy in a lot of places, as Mike notes, but there’s definitely an underlying, individual something.)” (0702/08)