Apparently, a lot of people are giving him shit for the machine gun part of his arguments. He responds quite gracefully

From Subguns

The solution to 922(o) will have to be political in the end. The fact is, outside the gun community, the concept of privately owned machine guns is intolerable to American society and 100% of all federal judges. If I had suggested in any way — including, by being evasive and indirect and fudging the answer — that machine guns are the next case and this is the path to dumping 922(o) — I’d have instantly lost all 9 justices. Even Scalia. There wasn’t any question of that, at all, going in, and it was confirmed in unmistakable fashion when I stood there a few feet from the justices and heard and saw how they related to machine guns. It was not just my opinion, but one uniformly held by ALL the attorneys with whom we bounced ideas off, some of them exceedingly bright people. Ditto for the people who wanted me to declare an absolute right, like I’m there to waive some sort of GOA bumper sticker. That’s a good way to lose, too, and look like a moron in the process.

Look, I understand that the logic behind any sort of regulation is stupid. I wouldn't hurt anyone with a fully automatic 50 BMG with armor piercing, explosive tipped bullets. But to John and Jane Q. Citizen, they don't see it that way. They're not immersed as we are in the debate and know only the basics. The trick is to educate them, then the law changes will follow, not the other way around.

Joe Huffman uses the term "Gun Niggers" (he uses asterisks, however), and it's the same concept as what we face today as gun owners. While you and I know that a person's skin color has nothing to do with them as a person, do you honestly think that blacks could have gone from slaves to having the full rights associated with citizens such as voting, property ownership, drinking from the same water fountain, etc? As wrong as it was to deny them those rights, they would have never happened had they not done so gradually. It sucks, but reality has a horrible track record for being fair.

There is no way to overturn every gun law in the United States with a single ruling. There is no way to change the perception of John& Jane Q. Public instantly so that they see things our way. I have mentioned before that the battle ahead lies with our neighbors and not our politicians.

I want to get to a point where exercising our rights isn't something that's impeded by the government. I'd love to see automatic weaponry available to the general public. I dream of the day I can purchase a new firearm without having to justify to the government why I need one or that I'm fit to have one. But I'm not the one we need to convince, and I'm not going to get all indignant about machine guns right now because this war is long and hard and we have no kind of "nuclear" option available to us. Hell, we had to nuke Japan TWICE before we got our point across.