Three hundred years later, Doune's famous guns come home

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In the shadow of the Scottish mountains, in the apparent calm of the town of Doune, was born a know-how that would pass through the oceans and centuries. Forged by hand from the seventeenth century, Doune's pistols combine ornamental refinement and lethal efficiency, to the point of becoming the weapons prized by soldiers, nobles and even revolutionaries. Their singular silhouette, shaped in recycled iron and decorated with engraved silver, tell…