AHC: Widespread Firearms Ownership and Gun Rights

With any POD starting at 1788 (the ratification of the US Constitution) have, by the 21st Century, a majority of the world's nations, including most of the Americas and Europe, have the right to own and bear firearms be protected by law, similarly to the 2nd Amendment, and have gun ownership be as widespread as it is in the current United States (few to no restrictions on what firearms are legal to own, right to concealed and open carry, laws protecting the right to self-defense). The existence of gun control movements and parties is acceptable, but the right to bear arms should be a major topic of political discussion worldwide.
As a bonus challenge, have a sizeable minority of the world's nations (25%-ish) have gun laws as unrestrictive as the most pro-gun states in the US (Arizona, Alaska).
 
More successful Revolutionary period starting in 1848 leads to long periods of civil war. Revolutionaries push for gun rights to enable the populace to resist tyranny and it becomes enshrined in other non US constitutions.
 
Or revolutionary France has guns rights. If I recall most republic's take after American or French republic's. If both have guns rights than most other republic's have gun rights.
 
More successful Revolutionary period starting in 1848 leads to long periods of civil war. Revolutionaries push for gun rights to enable the populace to resist tyranny and it becomes enshrined in other non US constitutions.

Oh god... it better not happen in Britain. That would mean TTL Britain would be very much like TTL continental Europe and not very British by our standards.
 

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Wasn't the right to own arms widespread in Europe in the beginning of 20th century/end of 19th? Maybe my memory is failing me, but in this case - better look how to preserve these rights.
 
Wasn't the right to own arms widespread in Europe in the beginning of 20th century/end of 19th?
Indeed.
Germany, for example and if I've understood correctly, basically only started trying to limit access to and possession of
weapons after WW1, in the hope that it would help stopping the ongoing political violence in the immediate
post-war period. (It didn't.)

I'm also fairly certain that, to use nations already brought up, pre-revolutionary France had no gun laws beyond
"you have to be able to afford or otherwise acquire a gun in order to own one" - then again pre-revolutionary
France was, if memory serves, still at the "while travelling, you change laws as often as you change horses"-stage.
 
A "right to bear arms" is more than just a lack of gun laws. The OP is asking foe wxplicit constitutional (or legislated) protection of gun rights.

This seems a little hard for me because no one would think of creating a legal protection for gun rights until gun control is a thing (except for a federation like the US which was initially deeply distrustful of the central government), but oncw gun control is a thing then it's a little too late to peotect a right that is already being restricted.

You'd peobably have to have some totalitarian state bw the first to implement gun control while at the same time antagonizing most of its neighbours (e.g. Nazi Germany only allowing "real Germans" to own guns). Then after this totalitarian state is defeated, protection of gun rights becomes seen as a way to allow persecuted groups yo defend themselves.
 
A "right to bear arms" is more than just a lack of gun laws. The OP is asking foe wxplicit constitutional (or legislated) protection of gun rights.

This seems a little hard for me because no one would think of creating a legal protection for gun rights until gun control is a thing (except for a federation like the US which was initially deeply distrustful of the central government), but oncw gun control is a thing then it's a little too late to peotect a right that is already being restricted.

You'd peobably have to have some totalitarian state bw the first to implement gun control while at the same time antagonizing most of its neighbours (e.g. Nazi Germany only allowing "real Germans" to own guns). Then after this totalitarian state is defeated, protection of gun rights becomes seen as a way to allow persecuted groups yo defend themselves.
Maybe a more radical and internationalist United States assists the French Revolution who then turn succeds in spreading the revolution to, say, Austria. Due to US influence they adopt several ideas from US political thinkers, like the right to bear arms, which then gradually spreads to the rest of Europe and then the rest of the world?
 
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