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Yup. The range has not yet won the case after 4 years and tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees: it has just been remanded to a lower court to be reconsidered.

I'm sure the lower court will get right on it.

What cases like this show is that the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights are incompatible with the administrative state. Any government official at any level can, at any time, interfere with your 1st, 2nd, 4th or 5th Amendment rights and it will take years and a small fortune to get redress. And even if you win in the end, there will almost never be any penalty for the officials involved.

Even with the (remote) possibility that you'll win in court, you need a small fortune to pursue the case. This effectively turns most of the US into an oligarchy, since only the rich can afford access and ordinary people have no effective recourse to the legal system. In addition, the upper classes can purchase exemptions through lobbying or bribery.

The only permanent solution is a restoration of freedom and the abolition of the myriad of picayune regulatory powers or the creation of special courts to expedite and reduce the cost of such adjudication.