Guns are legal in the UK. Handguns were banned (most not all) after 1997 on the mainland, but are legal in NI, as is concealed carry (CC legal on the mainland only with permit).
Rifles and shotguns legal. Licence required for shotgun or rifle, no limit on buying as long as you have licence.
Air pistols and rifles not licenced.
In total, 2.3M legal firearms, mostly rifles and shotguns (which it has always been, handguns a minority and only really popular from 80s onwards due to films like Dirty Harry). Figure dosent include air weapons of course.
I dont know about London gun shops, but I can take you to mine, which is 2 mins from here.
Thanks for the explanation. I knew there were legal guns, but they are heavily restricted. You have to realize my perspective...I live in AZ where you don’t even need a permit to carry concealed.
So the BBC has this wrong?
Nine years later, Thomas Hamilton killed 16 schoolchildren and their teacher when he opened fire at a school in Dunblane. Parliament banned all handguns and there is now a mandatory five-year jail sentence for possession.