and they all shout "why buy a gun from europe"

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Not if they are a sole importer. Which they are.
Cartel
an international syndicate, combine, or trust formed especially to regulate prices and output in some field of business.

Say i sell a spanner and i am the only importer of said spanner and you want the said spanner. I set the price and as sole importer this makes me a cartel No i sell the spanner for what i want to sell it at. It is up to you if you buy it.

That's why the general public are buying from Europe, like already said how can a gun shop in Europe sell a British made rifle cheaper than we can get it over here where it's made? This sort of problem happened a few years ago with Ford Transit vans the local Hendy Ford dealer in Chandlers Ford about 2 miles up the road from the Factory was selling them dearer than dealers abroad.

If makers over here where selling the rifles straight to the public then you wouldn't mind paying a good price as you knew the money was going straight to them but when the middle man is bumping the price up to far over what the UK public can buy it in Europe then surely something is a miss.

Pete