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The deciding factor for me is that I don't think prohibition changes anything. Keeping guns legal will cause a few deaths and prevent a few deaths, but the serious factors--criminal and moronic use--won't be much affected. There are already black market guns all over the place. The legalization of guns makes it easier, but it doesn't make it more dangerous. They'd still get the guns they want.
Another good point is that prohibition of anything will cause fighting, which basically cancels out the good of prohibition of violent tools. Like drugs--the fact that they're illegal is the reason for drug wars in the first place.
There's nothing to convince me that criminilizing it would be worth the freedom.
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