You can find Alan Gura's response to all this unwarranted armchair quarterbacking
here.
My response to GOA's press release
is here.
The machine gun issue would have lost the case if it had not been dodged. I have talked to more than a few people involved in this case, and they all agree there's no consensus on the Supreme Court, or in the rest of the federal court system, to recognize a right to possess a machine gun. Gura had to come up with a means of severing that issue from his case in order to win on the individual rights argument. Roberts is famous for issuing narrow rulings, and there's a good chance the majority opinion will not address these other issues.
We're going to have to seek redress on the machine gun issue through the political system. It sucks, but that's the way it's going to be. And before you'll be able to do that, you have to change minds. That's hard, but that's life.