[from occupied ga]

Second point, the British populace were never particularly armed in the first place, especially not in the cities

Then the mass confiscations of firearms after WWI that I read about is not factual?

Third point, only certain weapons have been banned.

Like perhaps all centerfire rifles and any repeating rimfires and air guns as well? Or did I read that in error too? I've never been there, so I have to rely on what I read.

[Winniesboy]

The essential point is that the classes of weapon most widely owned in Britain were always shotguns and various categories of hunting rifle. Since these have not been banned, the actual pattern of gun ownership in this country has not greatly changed after the various control measures. In fact shotgun ownership has actually increased, largely because of the increasing popularity of gamebird shooting and other country shooting sports (which in my area are tending to replace the golf course as the favourite networking day out for city businessmen).

[Mitch86]

Rifles, air rifles and shotguns are legal. If you want a shotgun, you have to have a shotgun certificate. Once you’ve got the certificate, you can have as many shotguns as you can securely store.

Automatic weapons are banned, as are handguns. That is it.