Why did British gun culture diverge from America's?

Why did Britain not develop the same gun culture as the United States?

The suggested explanation is that Britain lost most large predators before modern gun culture emerged, while later hunting focused more on birds and rarely required more than a shotgun.

Geography and hunting history are offered as part of the explanation for different British and American relationships with firearms. Britain is an island where most large native predators had disappeared before the modern period. Much of its earlier hunting tradition developed around bows, while later shooting often focused on birds. In this account, that pattern created less everyday demand for the range of firearms associated with hunting and frontier life in the United States. The answer is a broad interpretation from a livestream discussion rather than a comprehensive social history of either country.