gunmaking
Americannoun
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Some craftsmen in Ferlach, London, and other centers of custom gunmaking are suffering.
From BusinessWeek ● Jul. 29, 2010
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
Fairbanks Whitney, hoping to get an image with a bang from its gunmaking subsidiary, plans to rename itself Colt Industries.
From Time Magazine Archive
The important gunmaking industry of Birmingham dates from 1603, and soon rivalled that of London.
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 Piper, H. Beam
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