Oh alright Roger !
@Roger A. Shrubber
Sometimes the answers can be revealed by discarding the things which are not the answers.
Either rights exist or they don't.
If they don't exist, a state comprised of people can neither deny you rights or give you rights, since they don't exist.
If they do exist.
Either some people are born with more rights than others or people begin life with equal rights. If some people have more rights than others, then the concept of equal rights is a misnomer. It would be a concept based in an inequality, which means the word "rights" is not the proper term to describe the concept. I like the idea we all have equal rights.
If some people have more rights than others, then it could be rightful to enslave those who have less rights. That is the model government uses and which "gun control" rests on. Gun control shares it's rationale with slavery. Slavery is not a good place to begin to defend doing something.
If all people have equal rights, then consent is a necessary ingredient to human interactions. Since it is understood that consent violations are violations of rights and "gun laws" are alleging to protect rights, they must not violate OTHER rights, ie violate the consent of otherwise peaceful people. If it is okay to violate the consent of otherwise peaceful people, then rape would be okay. Again, not a good rationale for "gun control" over otherwise peaceful people.
Since all people are individuals, it follows that consent would have an origin in individual decision. It also follows that to violate consent is not a peaceful action, unless it is to defend against somebody in the act of violating the consent of an otherwise peaceful person. Therefore being peaceful is a way to respect rights.
The assumption that forcibly acquired "collective rights" (a rationalization laden concept in most instances) can violate individual consent can then only exist if the individuals within the collective had the rights the collective claims as individual themselves before they aggregated those rights in the collective. That brings us back to might makes right, which is the rationale for slavery. Let's discard that, again.
Collective rights in the political sense erroneously claim an aggregate of zeroes can equal a positive sum, which is mathematically unsound. So in order for gun control laws to be foisted on otherwise peaceful people, you would first have to strip them of their equality, a kind of slavery, and then create rights from an action which violates the peace, which brings us back to the idea that some people have more rights than others.
Gun control is a form of slavery, embraces racist tactics and it violates the consent of otherwise peaceful people. Therefore it must be wrong.