Gun ownership is a right, carefully and deliberately guaranteed to us by the framers of the Constitution. This, if you do not know already, is from the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The framers of our constitution did not include this by accident. Rather, it was based on their experience with attempts to deny this right to law-abiding citizens. This is not a matter for debate.
Rights are solely the province of the individual.
Second, the rights outlined in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights do not exist because the Constitution says that they do. Governments do not and cannot grant rights. Governments grant privileges. Rights exist independently of any government, and the Constitution recognizes this. I've gone to all this trouble and only people have checked it out.