The Supreme court has recently become into a much more cohesive unit that is ruling according to the constitution recently.
The judge did have some of the statistics in his written opinion for the past 30 years the ban has been in place - he did his homework and did not rule based on hear-say media gun phobia information that the California DA had used to base their appeal, in fact he told them they had no evidence the AR15 style rifles posed a threat cited a a person in California had a greater threat from fists & knives to be killed. He even went on to say people needed AR styled rifles to protect themselves & families.
