Private bodyguards have the same rights as every other civilian. This means that if a state prohibits people from having firearms, private bodyguards wouldn’t be treated differently.
How then will a private unarmed bodyguard be able to protect a vip in very dangerous parts of town where almost everyone (Edit: a lot of persons) has illegally obtained firearms? Are they trained to disarm people? Or do they just scatter and bail?
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This question is based on a false premise. There is no place on earth (at least that I know of) that fully prohibits firearms for private security. (Maybe Antarctica?)
Granted, the license to carry firearms in those cases often comes with a lot of stipulations, usually along the lines of “don’t be a fucking dipshit, guns are a profound responsibility, and are not for waving around like you’re a child,” but for everyone except the dipshits in question those are not onerous requirements to meet.
Edit: It turns out that I just didn’t look hard enough. There are actually a bunch of countries that prohibit private security from carrying firearms under absolutely positively any circumstances. A few even prohibit weapons of any kind!
So the answer to that is that if you are dealing with an armed potential threat, you bring a police escort.
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