Beer,
I shall quaff with you one day. I feel certain. Yet hearken to my tail of woe.
We have an approximate half-million pistols in the country - all in the hands of brigands. None for the lawful man. Also, any and all gases are illegal - mace, pepper, CS - all verboten. Even the pop-cap of CS on my girlfriend's mini maglite is illegal. Erm. Would be. If she had one. Which she doesn't. Honest, Guv.
Gases are illegal - even Jalapeno spray.
Kevlar vests are illegal. All body armour is illegal.
This is a *minor* victory - the war is far, far, far from won!
Arrows... bullet-heads are legal. Everything else (broadheads, splitheads, spreadheads, Harlequin Kiss heads) are illegal.
So yeah, we can penetrate 4" lexan with a bullet-head arrow. But a meat-shredder head which is any good in a close-fight is verboten.
Basically, combat heads on arrows are illegal.
And getting a firearms licence requires that you prove need to own a gun. Like being on the Olympic team, or being a gamekeeper.
As for spreadheads - forget it. Fully jacketted ball, or nothing.
*edit*
I forgot.
I'm six-foor-four. My GF is 5'4". I don't give a wet slap, frankly, as long as I'm allowed to stalk and drop and intruder using "maximum force". I'm a nasty, nasty, sneaky bastich. And now I get to do horrible things to intruders. I don't need a gun, Tovarisch. I just need legal separation.
I don't need a formal gun. I can do very well just given the right to murtalise the bastich.