The United Kingdom needs to give up any pretense of being a free country. It really isn't anymore, and not just because of their gun laws. In fact, I'd argue that those gun laws were necessary for any of the other crap they've done lately to hold up. An armed society would have likely rebelled by now.

But the gun laws are what they are, and while the average citizen is effectively disarmed if they want to be law-abiding, it doesn't mean there are no guns in anyone's hands.

That was made painfully clear in a recent story of the country where three people were arrested on firearm charges.

Two handguns were recovered during a raid in Oldbury. The bust in Trident Street also resulted in three arrests.

Officers swooped on the property on Saturday night and found the two firearms. The weapons were now being forensically examined.

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"Two handguns were found at the address. Two women aged 44 and 43, and a man aged 50 were arrested on suspicion of firearms offences and have now been released under investigation. The weapons are being forensically examined as our investigation continues. The investigation falls part of Operation Target, which sees our officers work 24/7 to tackle guns, drugs, money laundering and exploitation around the West Midlands."

Here's the thing, while they talk about this as being part of an effort to address organized crime, there's absolutely no evidence here of these three being involved in any of that.

It sure looks like this was just a few people who happened to have a couple of firearms.

If that pans out, then that raises a lot of questions.

For one thing, how did three otherwise law-abiding citizens get their hands on not just one firearm, but two? If the UK's gun control laws are so effective, how could they get two guns?

As it is, there's no mention of these three being investigated for literally anything else, so it's not likely that they got the guns in with a drug shipment they then distributed throughout the region. If it were, they'd be investigated for drugs, too.

They don't seem to be dealers, because that would have been part of the investigation as well.

In fact, the don't seem to be anything but three people who lived in the same house with two firearms.

We routinely point out how gun control doesn't work by highlighting armed criminals, many of whom also have other products that are illegal in their possession. It gives us a glimpse of just how people can get around the gun laws in any given place.

This, however, might be something different. It might show that you don't have to be a career criminal to get a firearm or two even in the most restrictive nations.

If a few middle-aged folks from the UK can get guns despite the plethora of regulations meant to prevent that and no Second Amendment to keep those rules in check, then what hope does anyone here have of somehow keeping guns out of criminal hands? The short answer is that we can't.

That's why we shouldn't disarm the law-abiding in a misguided attempt to disarm people who aren't going to be disarmed no matter what laws you have in place. It won't work and all you do is making the law-abiding vulnerable.