Even the select comittee said that the laws are currently absurd. Firearms are currently subject to no fewer than 32 pieces of legislation - some of which are obscure or unenforceable!
An onerous burden is placed on the police and on the public because of the difficulty
of understanding and applying the 34 relevant laws which govern the control of
firearms. It is unreasonable to expect members of the public to know their
responsibilities when the law is so complex and confused. It is also unreasonable to
expect the police to apply the law accurately in all cases when it is so complex. This is
unhelpful to good relations between the police and the public. We recommend that,
rather than adding new rules and greater confusion, the Government provides
proposals for early consultation on how to codify and simplify the law.
The link should not be overstated—there is no direct correlation in recent UK history between levels of gun ownership and gun crime trends.
No, same report, it concludes this paragraph by saying, "we urge the Government to give careful consideration to how it will publicise the legislation in order to give greater clarity to the lay person."
I thought this was telling, from the World Health Orginisation,
"Comparisons between industrialised countries show that there is a correlation between the levels of gun ownership and gun violence. This country has one of the lowest rates of gun death with annual gun homicides in England and Wales at 0.10 per 100,000 population compared, for example, with 0.69 in Canada, 0.93 in Switzerland and 3.52 in the USA." ch. 2, para. 31.
...I maintain my point that current legislation is succesful and well policed. anyway its a nice day, i'm off out.
The section in full, make from it what you will, the figures came initially from WHO...