gunmaking
Americannoun
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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
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
All the same, gunmaking is not the be-all and end-all of our manufacturing activity, and is, indeed, only one of the many and increasing trades that thrive and progress in the midland hardware capital.
From A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald" by Anderton, Thomas
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