Funny how you can buy a functional, deadly blackpowder revolver replica in Poland, needing only your ID and get some blackpowder from Czech Republic (in Poland that would require registration) and go on shoot up a school and that doesn't even happen. Police isn't even tracking blackpowder replica guns in their own category, so the media's antigun hitpiece barely had any examples of their use in homicides.

Still it doesn't excuse authoritarian laws regarding normal, modern guns - for example, you need to present belief that you life is in danger if you want a gun license for defensive use. EDIT: Also, one can be denied a license for a self-defense gun with no reason given.