Historically speaking, once a country bans guns, they never unban them. Exceptions to this occured due to significant government changes like in some Eastern European countries after the fall of the USSR. Realistically, it's not gun rights that the UK needs, it's a whole new government and to achieve that they'll likely need to use guns without being granted the right to.
Guns rights could help getting a new government. That's why they don't have it anymore. That's a chicken vs egg problem that will eventually be solved as things heat up.
Historically speaking, once a country bans guns, they never unban them. Exceptions to this occured due to significant government changes like in some Eastern European countries after the fall of the USSR. Realistically, it's not gun rights that the UK needs, it's a whole new government and to achieve that they'll likely need to use guns without being granted the right to.
Guns rights could help getting a new government. That's why they don't have it anymore. That's a chicken vs egg problem that will eventually be solved as things heat up.
Northern Ireland managed to smuggle plenty of illegal guns in with help from parties in the US,