Absolute nonsense. Only a few days ago it was the 25th anniversary of Dunblane, a massacre that will never be forgotten and out of which the snowdrop petition forced the government to have some of the strictest gun laws in the world. Who in the UK looks at the US and thinks "yes, we should have more guns"?

A lot of the hardliner Brexiteers would go for it (an Englishman's home is his castle) an Farage actually mentioned it.

Brexiteers would see tony martin as a hero.

Not actually an EU competence. Brexit is irrelevant to gun law and some EU countries are fairly liberal.

(Is this another one of those issues where someone is in favour of Brexit because they think the EU prevents something that is nothing to do with them, because they've been lied to by the UK press again?)

I find it very hard to believe that that would be a popular policy in the UK. Got evidence?

Yeah, even policemen rarely have guns in the UK, allowing everyone to have one would be lunacy.

You know we can own shotguns and full power rifles (303) in the UK.

Thankfully the armed police have very stringent training in the Uk.

Yes, you can, but you can't buy them at Tesco with zero paperwork.

Nor can you in the US (you need to apply for a permit and pass background checks), so not sure what your point is.

And even larger I think. A chap I spoke to at lunchtime has a .308 for deer hunting.

What we can't have is pistols, apart from 20 or so people in the Olympic pistol shooting teams.

Farage mentioned it and decent proportion of Brexiteers would go for it.