Richard Anthony Heller was the right man at the right time to challenge the District's 32-year-old ban on handguns in the Supreme Court, his attorneys say.
The face behind the landmark case, they said, could not be a tobacco-spitting or camouflage-wearing caricature of a gun-rights advocate ripe to be picked apart by the press.
In the 66-year-old Heller, they found an everyman with a spotless background and genuine interest in protecting his constitutional right to bear arms.
Mr. Heller's lawyers said he had the perfect combination of character traits to be the "regular citizen" in such a monumental case.
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