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Originally Posted by Rainbow Six
On a side note, finding ways for marauder groups in the UK to be armed is a source of constant headaches for me...there are only so many dodgy French weapons dealers or abandoned HSF caches...I do sometimes envy those whose work is set in the US where it seems (to me at least) that both lawful and unlawful groups have relatively easy access to large amounts of weapons.
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Maybe in its darkest days the British government decides to raise and arm some sort of home guard or civil defense corps or something along those lines, perhaps with newly produced AR-18s or old mothballed Lee Enfields or Sterlings (or whatever). It would only take one crooked soldier to tip off a particularly motivated and well armed criminal gang to hijack a shipment of a few hundred or even thousand weapons. This could either arm some wannabe warlords budding private army or be sold of piecemeal on the local black market (or a combination of both).
There's also the odd "lost" Spetznaz cache* that some kid finds hidden in the countryside. It's probably only a few AKs, grenades, etc., but it would allow whoever decides to use them to outgun the local police and maybe pull off a raid on its armory, netting a few more MP-5s, shotguns, sidearms, etc.
And, of course, some British soldiers would undoubtedly go rogue as soon as things started to really go south.
Add these all up and you've got a couple thousand illicit military grade arms out there across the UK.
*The original owners could have been wiped out by an SAS or army team equipped with good but incomplete counterintelligence.