It was a simple question with simple answers.
If the advertising for shotguns in America from the debut of steam, until the Great Depression is any indicator, Americans just wanted cheap guns. And Manufacturers filled that demand.
You can divide our history into two parts, before the civil war, and after. Our population grew 400% between 1865 and 1900, mostly poor people wanting cheap shotguns.
If you wanted to make guns, and it wasn’t rifles for the military, that’s where the money was.
Our social structure is/was different.
We didn’t have a worldwide empire, nor layer upon layer of a rich leisure class to consume the finest of everything all day every day.
We had the craftsmen, but no market.
Study enough, you’ll see Americans tended to put the effort where you could see it. Aubrey being the most obvious.
