Phil Karn writes:
Well, according to the authors, "The courts have overwhelmingly supported the collective-rights interpretation" of the Second Amendment.
This is an overstatement. C. Kennedy is not being accurate here, since she implies that this is settled constitutional law. In fact, it hasn't been addressed directly.
[...] Under the controlling authority of the only Supreme Court case to address the scope of the Second Amendment, US v Miller, the court concluded that 'the right to keep and bear handguns is not guaranteed by the Second Amendment'. The US Supreme Court declined to hear the case, letting the lower-court rulings stand."
One of the first things law students are taught is that the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to hear a case has no precedential authority whatsoever. --Mike