I forgot to add, Smallbore, that the thought of actually buying an English double in London appeals to my sense of synergy, even if it is a plain-jane gun (I'm a plain-jane guy with a plain-jane budget anyway...)
Roughly speaking, how much would it cost and what is the procedure to export a gun from the UK to, say, my local gun shop here in Woodward, Oklahoma? Can you give me a breakdown of what's involved? I'm seriously intrigued. If we come back to London next summer it'll more than likely be with an EF tour group and we'd be there two-three days before going on to Paris and Rome (my wife's a humanities teacher, otherwise I'd rather loiter in London the whole 10 days...)
Would that be enough time to browse your shop and maybe get the ball rolling? Of course, my wife's kids would probably think it's kinda strange for Mrs. Prairierat's husband to be buying shotguns during their educational tour...