The gun-control crowd is understandably pissed off. They were more than happy to have an administration for eight years that bowed to their rhetoric and passed one after another useless law. And now the bogus foundation for all those laws is finally being threatened. Nothing's guaranteed--the court has a long history of having a mind of its own, which is a good thing in the big picture. But truly, there is no language in the Second Amendment that sets it apart from the other nine in the Bill Of Rights, that support the "collective right" view, at all.
Like I said, I don't like Ashcroft, or the rest of the Shrub administration, for that matter. They're a bunch of bigoted good-old-boys who wear their faith on their sleeves and would have it imprinted on everyone else's sleeves too. But I suppose that it's rare that a person is totally evil...