Very sharp wit? Fair point though - it's not as if we can toddle off down to Asda (Wal-Mart) and buy something suitably destructive. If it helps, we have a village store here that stocks just about everything you'd ever need if snowed in or had to retreat to a bunker, but the only thing you can't get there is a good firearm. Pitchforks, garden forks, spades and club hammers are always in stock though. For close quarter combat, cordless hedge trimmers work great especially if you pull a manic grin as you swing it around with one arm.
My gun collection (probably just slightly smaller than the Royal War Museum) has several models of Smith and Wesson revolvers we provided under Lend Lease to augment those ghastly Enfield and Webley things. Us Yanks sent privately owned arms to the UK in it's darkest days. Shame the goverment destroyed most of them after the war, that's thanks for you.
Not intending to be witty at all.
Just a question that occurred to me based upon your posting.
Let me assure you of one thing. I actually hope you are a UK Conservative (meaning using the term in the same sense as a U.S. Conservative).
If you are, then we gain input/insight from a Conservative from another part of the world, and an country known (at least until recently) as a firm ally of America.
If an American had posted the same general info as you did, I would have had the same questions.
It pains me to read about the transition of the UK over the years from a Churchill inspired, strong, independent nation, into a gun grabbing/smashing, subsidiary of the European Union.
The other night I watched a great show about the Battle of Britain, and about the brave people of England who fought off the Nazi war machine, with their chin up, a defiant nation.
I just can't believe that those were a people who would allow a nanny state government, working as a subsidiary of a bunch of Brussels bums, to take away their rights, and their means of personal defense.
I truly hope your country can stop that downhill slide, and head, full steam, in the other direction.
I wish you well, but am not confident that I will see it happen.