Shows that even on an island the bad guys will get guns. To me, citizens owning guns is like having a middle class. Without a middle class everything becomes third world.
Guns are prolific in the UK, The first time i ever shot a real gun was a Makarov pistol behind a bar in Dublin Ireland. Any moderately connected person can get them, a lot of old rifles were readily available. A lot of the guns that you see are conversions, Some one brings in a demilled firearm and repairs it into a working state, For a time in the early 2000's a common firearm was a converted airguns, These airguns stored an air charge in what looked like a bullet casing which also held a pellet, They fired and function very similar to real guns, People would convert them to shoot 22's.
A lot of the firearms i came into contact with had been smuggled in by car on the ferry's from Europe. at the time an AK would cost about $2k . a glock pistol would be around $1500, a sawnof shotgun around $400.
There was also believed to be gun dealers who rented firearms, You would pay a fee and you would be given the gun and ammo, If the gun was returned unfired you would get a partial refund, If you used it you would own the firearm. I read about them in the news but never came into contact with any myself.