The UK regulates and bans guns in ways that would be unacceptable even to US gun control advocates. (Actually, maybe especially amongst US gun control advocates. All the big, left-leaning pro-gun-control celebrities would lose their armed guards that they absolutely insist the restrictions shouldn't apply to - that's not a legitimate reason for owning or carrying a gun in the UK. US gun control activists think that regulating hand guns more strictly than rifles is absurd and wrong, whereas the UK completely banned handguns. Also, the UK issues gun licenses to people as young as 14, and this is a fundamental to our approach to guns: the idea is to treat guns as a tool that they can be allowed to use if they show they're responsible enough, rather than something glamorous and forbidden. All of this actually aligns surprisingly well with what pro-gun Americans think gun control supporters get wrong, from what I can tell.)