"But- but the British model! Gun laws, all of them!

This is unpossible!"
Police and border officials are struggling to stop a rising supply of illegal firearms being smuggled into Britain, a senior police chief has warned. 

Chief constable Andy Cooke, the national police lead for serious and organised crime, said law enforcement had seen an increased supply of guns over the past year, and feared that it would continue in 2019.
But honest citizens can't have one for self-defense.  And if you want one for target shooting or hunting, you get an anal exam while they decide if your reasons/storage/mind all meet their 'standards', and then they can yank your license at any time, for no reason.

Simon Brough, head of firearms at the NCA, said: “The majority of guns being used are new, clean firearms ... which indicates a relatively fluid supply.”

He said shotguns were 40% of the total, with an increase in burglaries to try and steal them(.gov response: "We need to ban shotguns, those commoners shouldn't have them, because then they couldn't be stolen!). Handguns are the next biggest category, most often smuggled in from overseas, with ferry ports such as Dover being a popular entry point into the UK for organised crime groups: “We’re doing a lot to fight back against it,” Brough said, adding that compared to other European countries, the availability in the UK was relatively lower.
'relatively lower'.  Yeah, that's the ticket.  That wonderful British Model Obama so loves at work.
Gun crime has been rising and the last set of official figures about recorded firearms offences, showing a 5% fall to 6,362 in the year ending June 2018, is seen as a blip against a trend of rising gun offences. Statistics released earlier in 2018 had shown gun crime up 11% in 2017/18, and in the same period, the Metropolitan police said discharges of lethal barrelled firearms rose by 23%. Compared to 2015/16, there has been a 67% increase in the capital alone.
An island, with very strict firearms laws, with a ruling class having pretty much destroyed the legal gun culture, and this is the result.  Oh yeah, we want that here.