blimey are you trying to get me shot? they'd throw me in the gulag for having an unregistered butter knife
Might be an unpopular opinion, who knows but I can guarantee it will never happen, sadly, too deeply ingrained in the country's law...
UK really needs to let it's law-abiding citizens and police have access to firearms. This is coming from someone who's heard a lot of personal anecdotes in the family about tasers failing to properly deploy and it leading to an Officer being stabbed or worse when getting charged at.
There are of course issues with gun ownership, I won't deny that, but God would it really fix some of the issues this country has. If someone really has the intention to take a life or something you can buy basic pistols here off the black market surprisingly cheap, I know for a fact that certain models of Glock and a range of MP5's are stupidly easy to get a hold of.