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gunmaking

American  
[guhn-mayk-ing] / ˈgʌnˌmeɪk ɪŋ /

noun

  1. the process of manufacturing guns or the industry based on such manufacturing.


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Some craftsmen in Ferlach, London, and other centers of custom gunmaking are suffering.

From BusinessWeek ● Jul. 29, 2010

Fairbanks Whitney, hoping to get an image with a bang from its gunmaking subsidiary, plans to rename itself Colt Industries.

From Time Magazine Archive

Contact: www.dnr.state.wi.us Hugh Lomas grew up in a family of gunsmiths in Birmingham, the gunmaking capital of Great Britain, and studied the trade as a teenager there.

From Time Magazine Archive

This transference of the gunmaking craft from the Continent to England was also assisted by the tyranny of the foreign gunmaking gilds.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

Among the fine examples of seventeenth-century Brescian gunmaking above and below it, these things looked like a pair of Dogpatchers in the Waldorf's Starlight Room.

From Murder in the Gunroom by H. Beam Piper

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