Remember how last summer’s Supreme Court ruling on the District’s handgun ban promised to upend regulations and restrictions on gun ownership across the country? It doesn’t seem to be happening. The New York Times reported yesterday that of 80 cases that have come before lower federal courts in Heller‘s wake, few have actually resulted in the overturning of federal laws limiting gun ownership, transport and use. (The article cites the case of an East St. Louis, Ill. man who tried to argue that the Second Amendment protected his right to carry a gun while selling drugs. Predictably, a court disagreed.) Of course, state and local laws have yet to be tested, but some scholars guess that not much will come from those challenges either. It remains to be seen how pending lawsuits against the District’s new regulations stand up to post-Heller scrutiny (not to mention a meddling Congress).