Returning The Right to Bear Arms to Great Britain

Many see strict gun control as a hallmark of British law, but this was not always the case.

Britain has a robust tradition of armed citizenry, rooted in common law, enshrined in the 1689 Bill of Rights .

The United States enshrines the right to bear arms in its Constitution .

The Second Amendment , ratified in 1791 , reads: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State shall not be infringed.

Despite an estimated 400 million civilian-owned guns, the U.S. has high levels of gun-related homicides.

Switzerland maintains a system in which the citizen is expected to be armed.

Civilian gun ownership is widespread and culturally normalized.

Switzerland has low levels of gun crime, demonstrating that high rates of gun ownership can coexist with low crime when underpinned by a culture of responsibility and civic trust.