This 'string' has reached it's limit so I reply directly to your most recent reply here
In response to you question of age ... I'm retired
In 1996 we sadly a mass murder of children in a school shooting at Dunblane and that pretty much ended the private ownership of handguns and pistol clubs here.
Following the shooting in Hungerford in 1987, that was the end of most semi auto rifles
other than .22's