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In my historical ramble through the centuries, I skipped some wars and events. But for getting an overview of the topic, it is real okay.
I want to add for completion: As you could see now, the territories changed very often, and also the people had to change their homelands - they often were chased out of the country, when the country borders were defined new. Sometimes the people had the choice to stay, but they lost their belongings. And after a relocation to other areas, they also lost everything.
All this happened before the industrial revolution. And before the industrial revolution came over Europe, the people were farmers, soldiers or nothing - casually spoken. In the real old days, only the royals and dukes and princes and squires were allowed to own rifles.
So in the glory of the Austrian-Hungary-Empire, they had a lot of royal shooting clubs in the big cities. But there were not much big cities, only countryside and small neighborhoods. Mid/end of the 1800s, when industrial revolution came over the empires, also the rich factory owners had rifles. So they were allowed to shoot at the big "better-society-royal-ranges" or going for hunting.
And in Tyrol (west Austria), everybody was allowed to have a rifle since the beginning of 1500s, for practising for defending the country. They had a lot of small shooting ranges in the mountains, only wooden shelters with two or five firepoints. But after WWI and especially WWII, they were very restricted with rifles.
In the south Austrian state Carintha/Kärnten, there is the famous village Ferlach, were they manufactured since the 1500s a lot of important rifles. Also nowadays they are well known for hunting rifles. In 1641 there were 41 gunsmiths working in Ferlach - all over Bavaria there were only 16 gunsmiths in those years. In Ferlach, all the army rifles for Austria-Hungary-Empire were manufactured. But not so much target rifles, more hunting rifles.