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Here: http://reason.com/archives/2009/12/02/killing-slaughterhouse/
I recommend the entire article. The opponents of Gura's argument claim that overturning Slaughterhouse would lead to an open-ended debate over what counts as "Privileges and Immunities" but I think that is a fairly easy straw man as those natural rights are well defined in the Bill of Rights.
The Supreme Court has set a date of March 2, 2010, for oral arguments in McDonald v. Chicago, the case that will decide whether the revival of the Second Amendment won in 2008’s Heller case will extend to overturning gun control restrictions imposed by local and state governments.
The legal briefs from the plaintiffs, and many of their amici, are now circulating. And an interesting division in the preferred strategy for winning the case has appeared, one based on the daring legal gambit around which most of lead McDonald lawyer (and Heller lawyer) Alan Gura’s brief is built.
I recommend the entire article. The opponents of Gura's argument claim that overturning Slaughterhouse would lead to an open-ended debate over what counts as "Privileges and Immunities" but I think that is a fairly easy straw man as those natural rights are well defined in the Bill of Rights.