Focusing on the differences between the NRA petition for Cert. and the California petition for Cert.; I'd characterize the NRA petition as a document which takes the effort in its 40 pages to be persuasive beyond the issue of granting certiorari. The NRA petition is advocating in this document its position on why the 2nd Amendment should be incorporated. On the other hand, the CA petition does the bare minimum to have the case granted certiorari to resolve the split in opinion of the appeals courts.
The Ninth circuit has ruled in favor of incorporation based on the 2nd Amendment being a fundamental right; and the Second and Seventh circuits have ruled that the 2nd Amendment is not incorporated.
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The link is to a map which shows which states are in which Circuits.
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