Found this on Glock Talk.
Shows the true folly gun control is.
Article from Eastern Daily Press, Thursday 1st April 1999.
CLAMPDOWN ON GUNS FAILS TO CUT ARMED INCIDENTS
Firearms ban after Dunblane tragedy "made no difference to day-to-day operations"
By HELEN ASHWORTH
A firearms clampdown which forced handgun owners to surrender their weapons in the wake of the Dunblane tragedy has made no difference to the number of armed incidents in East Anglia.
The handgun ban, which has so far cost the Government almost £84 million in compensation, has seen more than 7000 weapons belonging to owners in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire destroyed. But police in Norfolk and Suffolk last night said the mass surrender of weapons had made no difference
to the number of armed incidents across the region.
In Suffolk, the figures of reported, armed incidents have risen steadily since 1994, although officers predict a slight drop this year. And in Norfolk, the figures have risen gradually since 1992 - with a slight drop in
1997 but rising again in 1998. ambridgeshire is the only area to report a steady fall in the number of armed incidents - although police said they doubted it related to the handgun ban. The firearms clampdown followed the massacre of 16 primary school children and their teacher by Thomas Hamilton in 1996.
Insp Robert George, firearms officer at Norfolk police, said: "The handgun ban has made no difference to our day-to-day operations, but we didn't expect it to. It was primarily introduced to deal with individuals who have legal access to firearms and mis-use them. These incidents are few and far between."