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 Napoleonic wars afforded English gunmakers an opportunity, which they fully utilized, of gaining the supremacy over their foreign competitors in the gunmaking trade.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
It was worth something to have that lesson taught us in that way; to find out that simple, straightforward, honest dealing as between man and man is after all effective in politics as in gunmaking.
From A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
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