C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
Collective rights do exist as legal doctrine – such as the right to engage in collective bargaining (NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. (1937)); clearly a worker alone possesses no such right.It's still not collective. It might require two or more people, but the individual still has the right.
And as we saw prior to Heller, The Second Amendment codified a collective right – there was no individual right to possess a firearm.
Prior to McDonald, of course, the Second Amendment applied solely to the Federal government.
State governments were at liberty to regulate firearms as they saw fit, including recognizing an individual right to possess a firearm.