"Those grouse shooting "British Aristocrats" MADE the London and Birmingham gun trade and that trade took the world from Flintlocks to modern, breech loading double guns. "

Hmmm not quite so. French maker Pauly devised the first breech loader in the 1810s, Lefaucheux the break open action in the 1840s. The British made the SXS into a specialised tool for driven game. Others refined versions better suited to the lone walking hunter and his dog, people like Darne, Manufrance with the Ideal, Germans with their drillings, and when the OU came along thankfully Browning and Beretta provided affordable OUs for us all. If it wre left to the British we would have to mortgage our homes to hunt or shoot some Skeet with their OUs.