I don't think that this story has anything to do with guns really. Firearms are just convenient hobgoblins to scare Brits. Im not up on use of media to form public opinion to control masses and all of that kind of stuff but Im confident that this story is early ground work for English attempts at somehow banning or blocking the common person from accessing what we presently think of as the dark web.
The internet in its present form will soon reach an evolutionary dead end and more and more people are becoming so concerned about privacy and censorship that they are turning to the dark web. The dark web and how its control is distributed threatens establishments and status quo of present governments world wide.
Rather than ramble on, Id like to offer this video, How the mysterious dark net is going mainstream, to illustrate what Im speaking to. At first the presenter seems like the stereotypical drug addled professor but continue to pay attention hes going somewhere important. I really don't think that Im making a poor assumption to believe that Trump and present administration would probably like more of us to better understand this upcoming issue.
You see, on the dark web there is no main stream media that can create a monopoly to attempt to control your thoughts and no way to censor those who speak contrary to government in an effort to corral everyone back on to the plantation of the governments choice. Understanding that the dark web has great positive potential to increase freedom also exposes us to the negative side, the very "dark" side of human endeavors. Not just drugs or guns or other things governments have told us are evil but things that in reality we all intuitively understand to be true evil like human trafficking and as all of you that have been paying attention know, ending human trafficking has been half the effort of the Trump administration thus far.
Interesting TED video. And, he’s probably correct.