I thought Europe was so much safer and a gun restricted zone. Apparently the UK has been an armed criminal intense society for decades. Illegal gun manufacturer factories supplying organized criminal gangs, gun running from the Balkans throughout Western Europe and now from Ukraine. Pistols are the weapon of choice, but apparently Scorpion Sub-machine guns are now becoming popular. The criminal enterprises have no problem getting guns, because criminals don’t follow gun laws.
Homicide rate in UK is about 6 times less than that of the US. Interestingly enough , even with “outlaw guns and only outlaws will have guns” policies in place. What else is there to say ?
Give it time, while the UK is protected by and ocean the rest of Europe is bound to see increased weapon attacks for decades to come from this war. They are still rocking grenades in Sweden from the 90’s Serbian war, way more guns have been given to Ukraine and they have a vast criminal network to move them.