Britain’s gun capital
Apr 15, 2020
3 minutes
Think of the home of English gunmaking, where quality is king and the guns of your dreams are hand-built by skilled artisans. Have you thought of London? Renowned as the base for distinguished makers, London has the monopoly on today’s big names, but if we were to look back a mere 100 years or so, the British gun trade would look very different.
The Birmingham gun trade can trace its origins to around the 17th century, with large government contracts being taken on in the late 1600s, committing the gunmakers to produce 200 military firearms per month for
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