Atlas

Gardone’s forges sustained armsmaking from the late Middle Ages, using the Mella River for power.

Rizzini’s company address is in Marcheno, Brescia.

Brescia’s engravers and etchers decorated guns for wealthy civilian customers.

Fabarm moved from Brescia to modern premises in Travagliato after Luciano Galesi’s retirement in 1979.

Perazzi’s Botticino factory includes barrel making, woodwork, assembly, heat treatment and shotgun testing.

Benelli built its Urbino plant in 1968 and began producing firearms that year.

Liège’s municipal arms museum opened in 1885 after a donation from the gunmaker Pierre-Joseph Lemille.

The FN group continued B25 manufacture and hand engraving at Herstal in 2024.

In 2003 the fine-shotgun trade centred on Eibar and neighbouring Elgoibar in the Basque country.

In 2003 Manufacturas Arrieta was based in Elgoibar and made sidelock side-by-sides.

Lanber operated its shotgun factory in Zaldibar, in the Basque country’s Bizkaya region.

Suhl’s nineteenth-century gunmakers included Sauer, Sempert & Krieghoff, Haenel, Merkel and Simson.

The proof establishment between Zella and Mehlis began testing firearms in 1893.

Krieghoff moved into its Donautal production site in 1960.

Blaser Group’s address in 2022/23 was Ziegelstadel 1, Isny im Allgäu.

London’s western gunmaking district grew around the Royal Court at the Palace of St James.

Birmingham’s Gun Quarter grew as craftsmen moved workshops into residential areas on the Weaman and Colmore estates.

John Dickson & Son began in Edinburgh in 1820 and established its Dunkeld workshop in 2001.

Springfield stood in the Connecticut River Valley, a centre of arms manufacture and invention.

U.S. Repeating Arms Company ended production of Winchester-branded firearms at New Haven in 2006.

Remington closed the Parker Brothers works in Meriden in December 1937 and moved remaining inventory, selected equipment and workers to Ilion.

Eliphalet Remington II began making rifle barrels in Ilion, south of the Mohawk River, in 1816.

Ruger made its redesigned Red Label in Newport, New Hampshire.

Weatherby opened its Sheridan, Wyoming, facility on 13 June 2019.

Browning moved its corporate headquarters to Morgan, Utah, in 1964.

Miroku moved its head office plant to Nankoku in June 1972.

Sakai’s gunsmiths and their descendants made matchlocks for about 300 years, chiefly for the Tokugawa shogunate.

Kunitomo and Hino in Shiga Prefecture developed barrel and lock designs; Kunitomo generally favoured simple construction over decoration.

The Mira family of Tomobe bought SKB in 1983.

In 2016 Konya’s shotgun industry centred on Beyşehir, with workshops in Huğlu, Üzümlü and Gencek.

Celal Yollu moved to Istanbul in 1990 and produced a semi-automatic hunting shotgun under the Vursan name in 1992.

Yıldız makes hunting and sporting shotguns in Burdur’s industrial zone.

Hatsan’s factory is at Kemalpaşa, İzmir.

Celal Yollu began producing over-and-under shotguns in Düzce in 1973.

Celal Yollu produced side-by-side shotguns in Kayseri in 1967.