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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A bodyguard, especially a bodyguard for politicians etc, is not a civilian. They are, 99% of the time, allowed to carry firearms, as:
1. They have been trained in use of firearms, and there is a paper trail of that training.
2. They are inherently at a higher risk, making firearms carry more sensible.
They are, in a way, like cops, exempt from carrying firearms ban, as they posses the training and their job is dependant on firearms. Look at money transport. Carrying weapons is illegal in plenty of places where they operate, yet they do carry firearms and not uncommonly, rifles.
Bodyguards and security are not civilians. If you hit one, it won’t be an assault, it will be assault on a person in line of duty. Hence they can easily be exempted from national firearm laws.
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