I'm French and I think that lots of us "foreign" shooters consider the US as an example to follow in terms of gun culture, although we each have our own with peculiarities that we sometimes hold dear and wouldn't like to change.
Different perspectives because of national histories and different lifestyles... it can't make anyone dumber to know about other mindsets. It probably helps grasping what it truly means to be "American", "French", "English", "Swiss" etc...
I'm really glad to see the widespread interest.
Barman,two of my most interesting and favorite shotguns are French, a little 28Ga Darne and an old 16 ga Charlin. Both are generally considered oddities here but fine guns. Interestingly I saw my first Darne in a gunshop in Izmir, Turkey about 35 years ago. The owner did not speak enough English, and I enough Turkish to converse much about it but he did say it was a Darne.
Information on these guns is hard to come by on this side of the Atlantic.
Glad to see you on the forum.