As far as I’m concerned, NO ONE aside from prison inmates should be restricted from owning and carrying guns. People can whine about criminals with guns all they want but criminals already have guns. All the gun laws do is create criminals.
A while back I stumbled across some Jackson Michigan prison records from the late 1800s. Among the items returned to inmates upon release were guns, knives, clubs etc.
Yes, this was done, the removal of rights for some citizens, so that later it can be done to all. Sadly many do not agree that freemen all have the right.