Ian McCollum has written books and articles for Popular Mechanics on the topic of firearms and is located in the US. If you like Ian’s content don’t forget to like and subscribe to his YouTube channel, it’s a good one and worth checking out.
Also below is an interesting table of the World's largest arms exporters in 2023. Not surprisingly, or maybe surprisingly the US isn't further ahead of everyone else, although still dominant, but note that Germany ranks 2nd ahead of Russia and China and even Spain, Israel and S.Korea top this list. The statistics are from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
