I always remain optimistic, but... in my day... Heller was our "Bruen" and eventually they invented interest balancing to get around it. That's stood for quite awhile and even with Bruen, the judicial is in many areas blatantly ignoring it, purposely misinterpreting it and prodding along all lines to find a successful approach to work around it. IE., Attempting to omit "and" from "dangerous and unusual". Altering the common use test to be "commonly used in self defense"... as in... only the number of actual trigger pulls in defense.Yeah but we move incrementally as well. The NFA was supposed to be the beginning of an outright ban 90 years ago, that is why it is so illogical. The idea was they pass it in this rather butchered form and then fix it in short order, banning pistols (which were supposed to be part of the original NFA tax) and incrementally moving up the list of "scarier" guns like semi-auto rifles and repeaters. They tried with "assault weapons" but only succeeded in making them more popular. Now NFA item sales are going through the roof, and SCOTUS is having to answer tough questions about "common use" that are going more and more our way. The left is finding that if they push too hard and too fast on gun control it backfires and we get less restrictions after the fights all settle out. We are seeing a flurry of this with state level cases, as many ban laws are poised to fall as we speak.
Heck... the supreme courts Sotomayor just today sided with NY and flat out stone walled an injunction request challenging NY's "good moral character" requirement for their citizens to exercise their 2A rights. Wouldn't even pass it up the line for further review. The other challenge case is still proceeding, but when supreme court justices blatantly defy the constitution and Bruen... that should give us all pause and a warning that the composition of the supreme court "will" eventually change and it may not be in our favor.
Short term I think we have more victories coming, but so far... the supreme court has failed in multiple cases to place injunctions on laws that go flatly against their own Bruen decision. That begs the concern that even if successful in the short term will the victories be lasting(?)
All things considered... nothing going on at the supreme court level does a thing to stop the bevy of new infringements being pumped out of the blue bastions at the state level. Push it out.. it takes years to make it through the courts, and even if their law is thrown out they simply rebrand something with the same affect to get another few good years of tyranny. Wash, rinse, repeat.