LJW---Were the prices you quoted in 2020 from this guy? Wonder what his current price is? Were your quotes in US dollars? Imagine the price of shipping one over and back or having one purchased in Austria and shipped to the US wouldn't be cheap.
I believe, but cannot prove, that the biggest impediment would be the entire “cartridge gun import/export nonsense!
I ahve seen a number of “pre 1898” cartridge guns on auction sights coming from Britain or the EU but the
Import nonsense is so crazy I would fear for ever getting it, let alone the ulcer inducing paperwork….
Yhs
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