Weapons are handmade by individual craftsmen using traditional manufacturing techniques, which are usually handed down from father-to-son.

Most of the people here make or sell just one thing, i.e., guns, while the second largest business of the inhabitants is transport.

Tourism is not advisable because tribal police (Khasadar) visit the market to check for any local rules and law violation.

According to Vice News, the gun trade in the area was affected by Taliban and was forced to go underground.

[3] Michael Palin visited the town as part of his Himalaya television series, as did Ethan Casey in his travel book Alive and Well in Pakistan while Australian film director Benjamin Gilmour's feature drama Son of a Lion set in Darra Adam Khel premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival 2008.