| Os, you know a person's life, liberty, and property are all subject to revokation via due process. Rights are only absolute to the point of not interfering with the rights of others.
Prohibit and regulate really describe the same act, only prohibiting something entails disallowing it altogether while regulating something entails disallowing it when certain qualifiers are attached.
If gun ownership is prohibited for the public, then ownership of a gun is disallowed.
If it is regulated in such a way that you can't own a gun without going through X amount of hoops, then ownership without those requirements met is still prohibited. |