Is the M107 legal in the UK?

Answer 1

No, it's not- it is a semi-automatic weapon, and private ownership of these has been banned in the UK since 1987, following the Hungerford Massacre in which a deranged young man called Michael Ryan ran amok with a Kalashnikov in his home town of Hungerford in Berkshire, killing 13 people and wounding several more before shooting himself.

Gun laws in the UK are amongst the tightest in Europe- the only firearms it is legal for a private individual to own are shotguns (and not pump-action ones either), hunting rifles and air weapons. Handguns were banned in 1997 following a massacre the previous year in the Scottish town of Dunblane, when a mad paedophile called Thomas Hamilton invaded a primary school armed with four revolvers and shot dead 16 children and their teacher before turning one of the guns on himself. Any handguns or semi-automatic weapons that are in private hands in the UK are being held illegally, usually by inner-city gang members or by paranoid loners who live reclusive lives.