It's actually "Gardone V.T." V.T: stands for Val Trompia. Since the decline of Brescia as a manufacturing area for guns, Gardone is the "hotspot" for guns, being not only the center of a cluster of gunmakers, especially the BP-replica industry, but also the location of the Italian National Proof House
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