• Gunsmiths at work in a small, air-rifle factory in Cipacing, Indonesia. The small village manufactures thousands of air rifles a year. Ed Wray / Getty Images
    Gunsmiths at work in a small, air-rifle factory in Cipacing, Indonesia. The small village manufactures thousands of air rifles a year. Ed Wray / Getty Images
  • A shopkeeper in Cipacing, Indonesia, takes down her most expensive air rifle, which was manufactured by one of the dozens of air-rifle gunsmiths the village is famous for. Ed Wray / Getty Images
    A shopkeeper in Cipacing, Indonesia, takes down her most expensive air rifle, which was manufactured by one of the dozens of air-rifle gunsmiths the village is famous for. Ed Wray / Getty Images
  • A statue of a man at the entrance to Cipacing village, considered to be the air-rifle capital of Indonesia. The village's gunsmiths make thousands of air rifles a year, most of them in small, back-garden operations. Ed Wray / Getty Images
    A statue of a man at the entrance to Cipacing village, considered to be the air-rifle capital of Indonesia. The village's gunsmiths make thousands of air rifles a year, most of them in small, back-garden operations. Ed Wray / Getty Images
  • Gunstocks laid out to cure outside an small air-rifle factory in Cipacing, Indonesia. Ed Wray / Getty Images
    Gunstocks laid out to cure outside an small air-rifle factory in Cipacing, Indonesia. Ed Wray / Getty Images
  • A gunsmith shapes part of a trigger assembly in one of the many small rifle factories in Cipacing, Indonesia. Ed Wray / Getty Images
    A gunsmith shapes part of a trigger assembly in one of the many small rifle factories in Cipacing, Indonesia. Ed Wray / Getty Images
  • A shopkeeper in Cipacing, Indonesia, checks the weapon of a customer who brought his air rifle in for repair. Ed Wray / Getty Images
    A shopkeeper in Cipacing, Indonesia, checks the weapon of a customer who brought his air rifle in for repair. Ed Wray / Getty Images
  • A gunsmith sands down a wooden rifle stock outside an air-rifle factory in Cipacing, Indonesia. Ed Wray / Getty Images
    A gunsmith sands down a wooden rifle stock outside an air-rifle factory in Cipacing, Indonesia. Ed Wray / Getty Images
  • A display of air rifles in a shop in Cipacing, Indonesia. Ed Wray / Getty Images)
    A display of air rifles in a shop in Cipacing, Indonesia. Ed Wray / Getty Images)

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In pictures: Cipacing, Indonesia’s capital of air-rifle gunsmiths

Robert Mickelson

March 06, 2014

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