Gun laws are only stupid in America because we have a Constitutional right to them. If the laws didn't get challenged based on their constitutionality, they'd be a lot more sane because they'd be a lot more broad.
Really many eu countries have liberal gun laws compared to the UK and the only reason that the UK doesn't is that the government panicked in the 20's around the time of the general strike and brought in gun laws to restrict ownership of guns before that we had effectively a similar second amendment right.
