I've always rejected the idea that we can or should institute UK-style gun control laws here in the United States. The Second Amendment alone makes that clear, but even if that weren't a thing, we've seen a lot of evidence of how little they reduced crime. Guns were banned, so up-and-coming criminals used knives.
And while some think this is a win, it's not even that, because there is still a pile of guns running around the black market in the British Isles.
In fact, it's so bad now that the British press is freaking out over it.
Granted, they freak out over a lot of crazy stuff, but this is a little different. This time, there seems to be a reason they're freaking out, and those gun laws don't seem to be doing all that much.
The mum-of-one – who leaves behind a 10-year-old son – was brutally gunned down as she stood outside the One Four One late bar on West Street last month.
Residents we spoke to on the streets of Sheffield revealed how guns can be purchased for as little as £200, while thugs are also converting replica pistols and even 3D printing them.
Just three months ago twelve men were jailed for a total of 151 years for their part in one of the UK’s largest illegal gun factory operations, where blank-firing pistols were turned into deadly weapons.
Officers found 108 weapons in various states of conversion following raids in different areas of the city, between March and July 2023.
Det Ch Insp Iain Martin said such weapons made up “a large proportion of firearms discharges in South Yorkshire”, adding that these guns “would have got into the hands of violent criminals putting innocent members of the public at risk of harm.”
A gun amnesty in February this year saw more than 40 weapons handed in, with shotguns, 22 blank firing guns and 110 rounds of blank ammunition included in the haul.
While recorded firearms offences across South Yorkshire fell from 273 down to 168, in 2025, locals tell us they feel the problem is on the rise, with one pointing out that “not all gun crime is recorded”.
And in the last year there has been at least two gun incidents a month in Sheffield.
Now, Sheffield has a population of over 580,000 people, so two gun incidents a month doesn't sound like a lot to an American. That's a peaceful community by our standards. It's a lot for anywhere in the UK, though, and it's a hell of a lot when you consider that guns are effectively banned throughout the country.
But, as is clear, when criminals want guns, criminals find a way to get guns. In this case, they're making guns. In this case, it was the timeless European tradition of taking a blank-firing gun and converting it into a functional firearm. This would, by American standards, still make them "ghost guns," mind you, but no 3D printer is needed.
This is something that states like California need to think about while trying to mandate software on 3D printers that would supposedly prevent firearm components from being made on them.
See, this is happening, and there is still a lot of violent crime being committed with knives, as Henry Nowak's murder attests.
Americans are told to look to places like the UK and Australia for "guidance" on the issue of so-called gun violence, but the truth of the matter is that neither place is doing anything particularly noble. They've disarmed their population, nerfed their police force until they're nothing but politically-correct footsoldiers, and now they're importing "refugees" who have no interest in assimilating to the culture, want to engage in violent behavior, and the cops arrest people who call it out.
Why in the world would we want to even start down that road?
It starts with gun control.
I speak for all of us when I say, "Hard pass."
