wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_the_United_States). As recently as 2002, the Supreme Court dealt with issues of gun control with regard to felons owning them. In that decision the court ruled that no agency or state can allow a convicted felon to ever own a firearm for any reason.

By a unanimous vote, the nine justices held that a federal district court lacked the authority to order Texas gun dealer Thomas Lamar Bean's firearms privileges restored after the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms declined to consider his request because Congress had refused to give it money to do so (Lane, 2002)."

Conclusion

The concept of the second amendment is at the core of any Supreme Court hearing with regard to gun control. Regardless of the number of gun deaths in America each year, or how the various political parties feel about the issue the bottom line for the Supreme Court is whether or not the constitution of the United States and the second amendment provides for the bearing...

So far the court has ruled that individual states have the right to interpret the constitution and base their gun control decisions on that interpretation.
References

Gun Politics (Accessed 4-8-07)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_the_United_States

Lane Charles, (2002) Supreme Court Unanimously Affirms Gun Control Provision; Federal Courts May Not Restore Ownership Right to Felons.The Washington Post | Date: December 11, 2002 | Author: Charles Lane

____(2003) Gun rights showdown / Assault rifle ban goes before Supreme Court

The Gazette

Yen, Hope (2004)High court ponders gun control law, and wonders what Rehnquist might think. AP Worldstream

The Gun Control Debate: You Decide (Contemporary Issues) (Paperback) by Lee Nisbet (Editor) Publisher: Prometheus Books; 2nd edition (May 2001)