On Sat, 14 Jan 2017 17:09:48 -0800, T wrote:

On 01/13/2017 07:55 PM, Bod wrote:
There are 2 million legallly owned shotguns in the UK. Anyone can apply
for one as long as you pass stringent rules to get a licence.
What you definitely can't do is own a handgun or an automatic weapon.

Guess shotguns do not make very good insurrection weapons.
You have done something very foolish to yourselves. The wolves
will be coming.

In the early parts of WWII the brits begged Americans to give/sell
them anything that would shoot. The arms industry was not capable of
filling those orders so lots of homeowner firearms made their way to
the home guard.
Yamamoto famously said they could never invade the US because "there
would be a gun behind every blade of grass"