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Quote by: Sonart  . U.S. v. Miller is already the law of the land, Zeeb, backed up by 8 of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal. The bigger danger is that Miller will be overturned by the Bush Court this coming March.
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All Miller really stated was that a short barrel shotgun was not a military weapon, which it really was (The us military had been using short-barrel shotguns for a long time, called "trench guns"), but that's not the point. It truely has nothing to do with the legal ownership of any "military" weapons. It is, in fact, still completely legal under federal law to own any fully automatic weapon, all that is required is to pay a $200 tax.
The Miller decision says nothing about an all-out ban on all firearms, which is what the current case is about.