For his book The Ameriguns, photographer Gabriele Galimberti travelled to every corner of the United States to meet proud gun-owners and to see their firearms collections. He photographed people and guns in their homes and neighbourhoods, including locations where no one would expect to find such collections.
These often unsettling portraits and the accompanying interview-based stories about the owners and their firearms provide an uncommon and unexpected insight into what, today, is actually represented by the institution of the Second Amendment.
Of all the firearms in the world owned by private citizens for non-military purposes, half are in the USA. The number of firearms exceeds the country’s population: 393 million for 328 million people, a matter of tradition and Constitutional guarantee. It is the history of the Second Amendment, ratified in 1791 to reassure the inhabitants of the newly independent territories that their Federal Government cannot abuse its authority over them. Two hundred and fifty years later, the Second Amendment is still entrenched in all aspects of American life and this book frames its current status through what are seen as four fundamental American values: Family, Freedom, Passion, Style.
Skinnerboox, 136pp, 22cm x 27cm, illustrated paperback, English text, 2025 reprint
