Interesting.....I heard it's a pain to get a rifle in the UK but I didn't know anyone could get a shotgun. I read a story a while back about a guy in the UK who went to jail for killing some kid that broke into his house. The shotgun won't do you much good if the laws won't allow you to put it to good use. Granted, I think he shot the guy in the back, so that may have been why he was arrested. What do the laws in the UK allow as far as self-defense goes?