As a result of the mass shootings Hungerford massacre in Hungerford , England and Dunblane school massacre in Stirling , Scotland , the United Kingdom enacted tough gun laws and a buyback program to remove specific classes of firearms ( The Firearms Amendment Act 1988 limiting rifles and shotguns , and the 1997 Firearms Amendment Acts which restricted or made illegal many handguns ) from private ownership . There have been two mass shootings since the laws were restricted , the Cumbria shootings in 2010 which killed 13 people and the Moss Side mass shooting in 2018 , in which no-one was killed
Hungerford massacre
Hungerford massacre
Mass shooting