Tooltimey, are you a member of the NRA?
I will assume you are not, since you started this thread with a statement from the GOA that tried to excuse itself for not getting involved in the Katrina gun confiscations. A rather inept excuse, as I pointed out.
Have you read the entire decision in Parker v. D.C.? Do you understand the logic the Court used to go from military pattern weapons (as the Miller Court seemed to imply) to personal handguns and self-defense? Do you understand the political ramifications of what the Court said?
Allow me to clarify.
Under the Miller decision, the only firearms that are (probably) protected under the 2A are those firearms that can be shown to have some connection to the efficiency of the militia.
Under that criteria, it can be argued that MBR's (Main Battle Rifles) and select fire intermediate power carbines (assault rifles) are protected. But you cannot argue that shotguns, hunting rifles and most handguns are similarly protected, because they are not conducive to the efficiency of the militia. This is almost always read as these other firearms are not in common usage by the military - our military!
If that was all there was to it, then sooner or later, someone would find a way to make standing and bring this to the Supreme Court. Then you have to somehow get this Court to grant cert on such a case. How well has that worked in the last 70 years?
Now add into this mix, the expanded powers of the Feds under the Commerce Clause. Also add into this the fact that the majority of the population no longer has experience with firearms in general, and you have a tremendous force to overturn.
These are the pragmatic facts of the day. You are simply not going to turn this behemoth 180 degrees on a dime, no matter how much you rant and rave that it's a violation of your rights.
Regardless of that, we are making headway. We are nudging things onto a new course. We simply have to be aware that if we nudge too hard, there will be political and popular backlash that could undue everything that has been achieved so far.
Now enter Parker.
The Court in Parker not only said what I did, above, about the Miller decision, it went further. The Court laid out the logic, step by step, where we see that the Miller court was too narrow. Where it should have also included all of the firearms we enjoy today, including all handguns. Specifically handguns, because self-defense itself was part and parcel of the RKBA. The implications of Parker are that any complete ban on any specific subset of firearms is a violation of the 2A.
Do you now see the implications of this reasoning? Particularly if the Supreme Court grants cert and upholds the Circuit Courts decision?
Let me spell it out to you. If Heller (was Parker) is upheld, Title 18 section 922(o) USC will fall. It is an easy argument to make that 922(o) is a complete ban on a subset of arms that are specificly protected by Miller if all we go by, is that one decision. But the SCOTUS would never hear such a case by itself. It must first be goaded into taking on Heller, coming out with a favorable decision there.
And just where is the NRA in all of this? It's being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the fray. The NRA doesn't want to see this. It fears what the Court will say. It has always feared what the Court will say. So it must be dragged, against its will, into the fray... But once there, it will fight. It will have no other choice.
The NRA will put out PR releases that it is "responsible" for all these successes, just like it did with the Katrina confiscations. It really isn't, but I can and will let them have that little point (as did the SAF), if we can get this 800lb gorilla into play.
All of this is going to take time. Probably a lot of time. A lot of cases to set the groundwork. It took 60 years to get to the point where we have started taking back our right to keep and bear arms. It is progressing, even if it is too slow for some of you.
But you, want what you want, and you want it now. King Baby Syndrome.
