The American state that produced and shipped out the most firearms since 2015, New Hampshire has funneled millions of weapons into the already-flooded domestic market of a nation beset by a gun death epidemic
An customer browses guns at RTD Arms & Sport in Goffstown, New Hampshire on June 2, 2022. Smaller gun makers are booming in the US , thanks to ravenous and sometimes specialized demand for pricey limited-production pistols and custom rifles, engraved with bible passages or the US flag. The millions of guns produced annually in the US are primarily made by the nation's biggest manufacturers, yet smaller operators have poured into a market that saw production nearly triple from 2000 to 2020. Image: Ed JONES / AFP