Really? Then I have been mislead and am glad to be set straight. I understood it was very difficult for a private citizen to own a gun in Britton. Can you own handguns or are you limited to hunting rifles?
Hand guns were banned in an unfortunate knee-jerk reaction to the Dunblane school shootings, but shotguns and rifles are fairly easy to obtain and there is a fairly wide choice in my local gun shop. I have a shotgun myself and go clay shooting on a regular basis. I also do historical re-enactment and like to take my replica English Civil War period matchlock down to the local range now and then.
Here's a link to an English gunshop so you can see what's typically on offer in this country rifle-wise: Rifles in England