An interesting look at a specific industry and how that industry survives or doesn't survive. Was it the constant barrage of bad press by American gun writers decades before of soft parts and weak metals used in 'price point' guns demanded by American buyers and supplied by Spanish makers during that period?
Yet look at the French gun industry. They have even a worse reputation here but they could care less. Their industry survives through French demand and French demand only and could care less if they export a gun to anyone. Has anyone heard of a Georges Granger except for a few double gun aficionados? Does he care, no.
Given today's gun environment where the double gun is universally accepted and mostly exempt from the world's restrictions on gun ownership you would think that these builders would be swamped with orders and demand just through the citizenry of their own country would far exceed supply.
Yet we have another builder disappearing at a time when you would think that the world wide market conditions would put them squarely in the money.
Strange times, strange industry.
