Signs on a wall advertise the air rifle industry in the village of Pare, in Indonesia

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Hundreds of people in the village of Pare, Kediri, Indonesia live from producing air rifles. In this village there are at least 20 rifle makers. Pare rose to fame as a producer of rifles since 1967. Villagers learned to make the rifles from the village of Cipacing, West Java, which has been making guns since 1960. Air rifles uses a pneumatic system with air pressure. The rifle on the market has an average caliber of mm to mm.

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Size: 4928px × 3264px
Location: Kediri, East Java, Indonesia
Photo credit: © Arief Priyono / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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