It's hardly a massive hobby in the UK (no, dearest Atlantic cousins, not because we're oppressed), though the shooting business is apparently worth around £2bn a year.
I doubt every single farmer or large landowner in the country has firearms, but many do, including my parents - so to an extent I've grown up around guns, principally air rifles (because within some limitations you don't need a license for them and minors can shoot with them), and shotguns. I doubt I'll ever win any Olympic medals, but I'm a sufficiently good shot to defend myself very well from hordes of rampaging clay pigeons!
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It’s because of jolly old England ( my Atlantic cousin) that we have made the right to own fire arms A protected right Beyond the control of over reaching government
@TexChik Actually we have it too, in our own Bill of Rights. (Although strictly speaking the text suggests that it only applies to protestants, but that's a different matter).
Firearms are also subject to regulation in the US of course, just different ones, so I don't know about being 'beyond the control' of the govt.
Still, a fair point! (And largely I would prefer something more on the lines of the American model).
