Les,
Gun shows, no. We do have Game and Country fairs at which there may be one or two 12 bore cartridge sellers, but apart from that, no. The sale of guns and ammunition is tightly regulated and the use of hand guns is not permitted at all, even in competition shooting. If you want to own a shotgun, you need a licence from the police and they will inspect your storage and security systems of not just the immediate area where you will store the weapon, but your entire house. Most hunting (if you call it that) is either pheasant or grouse, which entails turning up and employing beaters to kick the undergrowth in the hope of getting these lazy birds airborne so that some can pay exorbitant amounts of money to blast them from the sky at point blank range. There is some deer hunting in Scotland but its very expensive and very exclusive. Weapons here are still very rare, thankfully. We fail to understand why on earth everyone in the States think it right to go around armed to the teeth, hence my flippant comment about getting hit with a chrysanthemum bloom.
