Where do the finest guns in the world come from today?
I realize this will be an opinionated response, but is London long past its prime? Ferlach? Pictures always make a discussion like this better/more entertaining.
Regards
Chuck
To get back to the question posed:
It has not been my experience that London ever had a strangle hold on the "best gun" thing, either in numbers or uniqueness. There may have been a cache in the anglophile Empire thing but the guns themselves were certainly nothing special. Beautiful guns were made many places.
These days it would seem that the Italians have a pre-eminent position not only by number of gunmakers but the incredible quality of the products. Just as one has never stood alone, they do not now - but it would take some real doing for anyone to be better.
Even when it comes to making machines of most any kind, the Italians have a sense of line and style that is unequaled currently: toasters, coffee makers, cars, lathes, you name it they can make it prettier AWA functional.
Altho I admit that Marelli and Lucas can still meet anyone's expectations no matter how low they are.
HTH
have a day
Dr.WtS
