that is because the british view any bolt rifle as a military rifle ....has anyone here ever walked into a high end gunshop in england like purdeys,hollands, evans,asprey,go in and tell them your interested in bolt guns and right away you can tell your basically second class citizen they only make them for the american market ,also i think landrover sells more cars here then anywhere at 70k a pop , they probably think were nuts for that too!!!!...paul