Word: gunsmiths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Terrified, brooding, she resolved to free herself of him. The first time she aimed her old .38 revolver at him as he walked along the street, the gun wouldn't work. She took it to a gunsmith, had it fixed, waited for Coffman in a cafeteria. But the place was crowded. She was afraid someone else might get hit. Her third attempt was more successful. Even while she was talking, Coffman died in the hospital...
Died. Jonathan Edmund Browning, 80, famed gunsmith; in New Haven, Conn. Father Jonathan Browning was an Iowa gunsmith, who founded Browning Arms Co. in Ogden, Utah (1851). Brother John invented many firearms. Jonathan Edmund constructed the models...
Died. Reginald Francis Sedgley, 61, English-born gunsmith and firearms inventor; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. In 1936 he admitted to the Senate Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry that he had bought machine guns from the U. S. Army for 12$ apiece, reconditioned them, sold them to Brazilian revolutionists...
...persons) in the most intelligent-and intelligible-words of hers that I have seen, injected some common sense into this discussion recently when she said, "Men fight because they want to fight." Selling revolvers, pitchforks or store teeth to farmers with a line fence row does not make the gunsmith, hardware dealer or town dentist the cause of the ensuing bloodshed and mayhem...