The 2dA has always been an individuals right.

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Just read the article. It contains false and misleading statements. Examples:

...the founding generation believed individual Americans had an inherent right to bear those arms.

Misleading. The founding generation did not believe that all Americans had a right to bear arms. They believed that most of the black population had no rights whatsoever.

Many colonies enshrined an individual’s right to bear arms in their constitutions before the Bill of Rights was even written, most of them in more explicit individualistic terms.

False. Of the five State constitutions which preceded the Bill of Rights, the majority were explicit that the right to bear arms was for collective defense.

North Carolina (1776) "...the people have a right to bear arms, for the defence of the State..."
Pennsylvania (1776) "...the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the state..."
Virginia (1776) "...a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defence of a free state..."
Vermont (1777) "...the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the State..."
Massachusetts (1780) "The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence."

"The right of self defense is the first law of nature..."

False. The first (and perhaps only) law of nature is that living beings can do whatever they have the will and ability to do.

"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers..."

LOL. If an armed citizenry actually were a "strong moral check" on the power of rulers, there wouldn't now be a ban on bump stocks, nor would we have laws like the NFA.