Not a lawyer, but a loss due to a "longstanding" argument is one of the better ways to get to an appeal, since it indicates that the challenge itself has no substantive flaws.
I could be totally wrong on this, of course.
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The Rifle on the Wall
"“[S]cientific proof” of both gun-rights and gun-control theories “is very hard to get”; therefore, requiring “some substantial scientific proof to show that a [firearm] law will indeed substantially reduce crime and injury” is tantamount to applying strict scrutiny to, and almost certainly will lead to invalidation of, the law." - Kamala Harris
Lawyers and their Stockholm Syndrome
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