In related news, the number of shotgun-related deaths due to mishandling by ten year old children in the UK recently skyrocketed to zero, leaving authorities scrambling to contain the disaster.
In a prepared statement, a spokesman for the ACPO stated that there was no cause for public concern, and that the UK government was taking "every possible precaution" to ensure that firearms would be restricted only to government-sanctioned children operating in other countries who have been given at least six weeks' training.
"This oversight will swiftly be corrected" assured the spokesman. "When Britain was threatened by a wave of gun violence, we took the measures needed to ensure that it would only be threatened by proper melee and unregistered gun violence. This case is no different."
The ACPO spokesman was unavailable for further comment, but tens of thousands of former gun owners in the UK simultaneously shook their heads in disapproval and bewilderment. One of them had this to say:
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