Rodger Brown finishes work on a front sight post assembly for an AR-15 style rifle barrel at Spike's Tactical LLC, a gunmaker in Apopka, Florida, U.S. December 10, 2018. REUTERS/Gregg Newton
BOSTON (Reuters) - A decade ago, Kentucky's Anderson Manufacturing was a small machine shop that didn't make firearms.
By 2016, it was making more rifles than Smith & Wesson, according to the latest available data from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Anderson's big seller: assault-style rifles that cost up to $2,100 (£1,665) and require no lubrication. Anderson says it made nearly 454,000 rifles that year, or about 57,000 more than Smith & Wesson.
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