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Both are illegal here, but culturally Brits have usually tended towards the blade rather than the barrel.
Guns weren't used much in robberies for instance, unless it was a post office or security van. Your average mugger or burglar would have a knife not a gun. Gang fights nowadays might involve guns, but when I was young it was always knives.
Guns tended to be rifles and shotguns, the kind of thing that could reasonably be used for playing or poaching. Sawn off shotguns were the traditional weapon for armed robbery. High-power weapons just weren't available even to the criminal fraternity.
Now...a samurai sword. That used to be something a lot of dealers used to like to have around for show.
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