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I think high rates of firearm ownership would be absolutely necessary to maintaining a stateless society
Most ancaps imagine basically an oligopoly on force (some relatively small number of clearly defined competing firms), and I think to be stable anarchy requires pretty democratized and diverse capacities for force, and an ability to generate networked resistance to tyranny
Not that those people are anti individual gun ownership -- the american right is pretty into the idea of popular firearms ownership as necessary to maintaining freedom. But I don't see them often emphasizing pressures this places on the provision of security in a free market.
I think broader anarchist concerns about prison and deferred policing at all ought to lead us to emphasize pressure popular gun ownership can place on institutions. Let's be clear about the need for mechanisms enforcing a line between "yo dude watch my barn" and private piggies.
I see some form of security (even if just self defense) as necessary given any sort of property norms (commies incl.) I am not concerned with market provision per say, and I think the focus on government as monopoly and anarchy as polycentricity are well place by libertarians.
But... I have concerns about cops and the court system that run deeper than just their status as monopolistic, and I think anarchy fairly strictly requires a culture of people willing to defend themselves against the broader tyranny of policing.
