In C# in my base class Weapon I have declared a enum Firestate like:

enum Firestate
{
    Fire
};
 
public class Weapon : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Firestate firestate;
};

And in a inherited class Gun I use that enum. But I get error CS0052: Inconsistent accessibility: field type 'Firestate' is less accessible than field 'Weapon.firestate'.
When I remove public from firestate there is no error but then I cant use it in Gun since it is private.