that ' s pretty good <| sep |> I am from the UK and our situation with guns is great . Hardly anyone has them , and those that do are heavily checked and periodically inspected . It would be great to do the same in other countries but only an idiot would think it would work in the US . For one , everyone has them , so trying to get them handed back in would be impossible , so many would fall through the cracks it just wouldn ' t work . Secondly , here in the UK we are a island , that has huge benefits to managing borders , plus we are a lot smaller than the US . The US has two massive land borders which would offer relatively easy smuggling paths . For sure some people in the UK who shouldn ' t have guns do have them but the size of the issue is tiny compared to the US . I think background checks would be good , but heavens knows the US cannot copy the UK . As you say , it is impossible .