I'm reaching out to our CD & UK friends to ask a favor.
Could you please tell me exactly what the gun ownership laws are in your countries?
I'm asking this favor because I realized today that I am woefully ignorant of the gun ownership/gun control laws are as applied to the citizenry.
The impetus for this was the school shooting today in the US state Ohio. I hadn't heard of it until someone mentioned it to me in the early afternoon. It sparked a conversation of the "what will happen here?" nature. At one point the restriction of gun ownership in Canada and Great Britain was brought up. I disappointed myself tremendously when I realized I could not speak with any assuredness on this topic, other than sputtering bits and pieces of vague memories of AMERICAN RIFLEMAN articles that dimly flashed in my brain.
I may as well have just said "they're bad", for all the authority my blithering did carry.
So please, educate me in the "law of the land" for your respective countries. Although the only country across the seas mentioned in the discussion was England, I am again displaying my ignorance by assuming they would also hold true for Ireland and Scotland as well(?).
I greatly appreciate any help offered. - Marc
p.s. Yes, to retain any information culled here, I'm going to "save it" in this whizz-bang electric box I'm hammering on now.
