Hi Snowman, we lost our right to handguns back in the 1990s and to semi automatic rifles in the 1980s, both times the clamp down followed some nutter running amok with a weapon.
People like myself who legally owned them had to surrender them to "dear old nanny", they paid us compensation but it never covered the costs of them fully, and most of us were greatly out of pocket!
How did the saying go,
Ban guns and only the criminals will have guns.
Its true, following the tightening of gun control ownership, Britains gun crime rate has escalated. Work that one out.