Some people perhaps (career criminals with deep connections in the sphere).

I suspect it's a lot harder for your average man in the street.

Even for career criminals it's vastly more difficult and expensive than the newspapers would have you believe.

Hence: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Rebore

Oh undoubtably, one of the governments successes over the last decade has been to get gun control back under control.

Crimes involving a gun are down by half over 10 years (they set up some special task force to police firearms as well as working in Europe with partner countries where the guns where coming from).