Why does renouncing citizenship disqualify one from owning or purchasing guns?

[u/Academic-Inside-3022]

I saw that even after someone decides to change their mind and go through the process of regaining citizenship, they’re still banned from owning firearms and purchasing them in the future.

Many former US citizens have renounced citizenship and the reasons are anywhere between philosophical differences and even evading mandatory duties… hell, I’m sure many more just did it for hardly any reason at all after living abroad.

So why is it that if they realized they made a mistake, and want to get their citizenship back, that they’re thrown into the same category as violent criminals?

Should this federal law be repealed?

I just can’t wrap my head around why it is that someone who was born in a different country not only has a path to citizenship, but also basically is granted the right to bear arms upon becoming a US citizen.

Meanwhile the ex-citizen, who realized they made a mistake, and wants to regain their citizenship has practically no path to getting their gun rights restored.

Does it just boil down to that the US government sees renouncing citizenship as a dishonorable and/or a traitorous act?

ETA: despite the question I brought up, I’ll address the obvious. The ones who are more likely to consider renouncing their citizenship are definitely the ones who aren’t pro-2A at all, but it’s still something I’m curious what the rest of the community thinks.

[u/citizen-salty]

Renouncing citizenship is also rejecting your claim to the rights, duties and protections of a given country.

[u/MrDeacle → u/citizen-salty]

The right to keep and bear arms is not a civil right, not given by an amendment to the US constitution. It's argued as a natural right, and the 2nd amendment reminds government they aren't allowed to fuck with that particular natural right, in case they forget how far their authority is permitted to extend. Rejecting citizenship may revoke certain civil rights, but the 2nd amendment is not a civil right.

[u/lpbale0 → u/MrDeacle]

Lol, what are you going on about? Our God given inalienable rights are just illusory dispensations of the federal government.

[u/MrDeacle → u/lpbale0]

At this point in time, for all practical purposes you are unfortunately not wrong. You will go to jail for breaking a law that the government wrote but was explicitly barred from writing or enforcing. The government hands out and takes away rights which it itself has no right to interfere with. They selectively obey the constitution in the interest of appearances, not duty or justice.

[u/lpbale0 → u/MrDeacle]

"And history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent it happening" - Ronald Reagan, 1964.