ALL legally held private handguns were confiscated. That's because the authorities had a full detailed record of everything legally held.
When the Government of Great Britain decided to confiscate all legally held private handguns, was there any financial compensation given to the owners of the said handguns? Was there any challenges about property rights? An individual could have a sizeable amount of money tied up in a collection.
Sorry, I missed the newspaper link provided earlier by Gunter; states,"More than UK80 million was paid in compensation and the cost of the confiscation scheme to police and government cost tens of millions more."
Tim
