Firearm Ownership: Rights & Responsibilities
- Personal Safety
- Mon 10th Mar 2025
Full disclosure, I’m a Brit who grew up and lived in the UK. When I was 36 – in 2008 – I moved to the US. I remember when legislation, in the UK was passed (1997), that severely restricted who could own a firearm and that instituted relatively harsh penalties for illegal ownership (even if the firearm wasn’t used in a crime) N.B., this didn’t result in an increase in crime, and it probably had little effect on the fall in the crime-rate that happened subsequently. I served in the military so I’m familiar and comfortable around firearms. I’m not...
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