British troops were forbidden to take any weapons back at the end of WWII by the military authorities even though gun laws were quite lax in the U.K. at that time. I understand that they made a brisk trade in selling Luger pistols to the G.I.'s. I do have a nice Belgian 24 bore that I suspect managed to get smuggled in; probably by a high ranking officer that could get away with it. Lagopus…..