This is the best price being offered anywhere, USA and Europe included. It's a lot for a firearm, but not all firearms are the same. 3500 of these were made in the late 80's and were just retired by the French military. These are bolt action guns in a common caliber. These are never likely to get hit by bans and are a relatively modern and very exotic military rifle - these will be sold out to a hungry collector market across North American and Europe and they will quickly appreciate. Anyone buying one of these is fortunate to be getting in at the lowest price they were commercially available. And to be able to get them with the original optic. For whatever reason, none of USA's came with them and are being outfitted with repro's at a substantially higher price.
Don't trust the importer because he's new? That's fine, more for those willing to go for it. Personally, it's a deal I'm not going to shy away from.