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Lyman Smith dabbled in livestock and lumber before joining with his brother Leroy and gun-maker William Baker to start a gun company in Syracuse, New York, in 1877.

Classic Side-by-Side Shotguns by Field & Stream's Philip Bourjaily 2006

The $1 billion long gun market is about 60% larger than the revolver and pistol market in which the legendary gun-maker specializes, according to the company.

Smith & Wesson Riding Shotgun 2006

In like manner, if you naïvely inquire of a gun-maker whether a particular rifle will carry two hundred yards, the chances are he will exclaim, emphatically, 'Two hundred yards, Sir?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various

Trade at Tetuan, and apparently everywhere else over Morocco, is not what it once was: the old flintlocks, inlaid with silver wire and lumps of pink coral, are unknown since the last gun-maker died; snuff-nuts, even slippers, do but a small business.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

He was expecting a message from his gun-maker, and he opened it without any particular interest, but as he read, his whole manner changed.

A Maker of History 1906

Well, this foundling was adopted by an armorer and gun-maker.

Major Barbara George Bernard Shaw 1903

Yet he was, and remained to the end, plain Patrick Mullen, blacksmith and gun-maker.

XVI. Reform by Humane Touch 1902

They were made by a Bond Street gun-maker he always went to, one of the best in London. '

The Four Faces A Mystery William Le Queux 1895

Moscow fortunately boasts of an excellent gun-maker, and I was able to replace our armoury with English weapons, though, of course, at a ruinous expense.

From Paris to New York by Land Harry De Windt 1894

He was often in actual need, though we may not accept d'Argenson's story of how he was once seen selling his pistols to a gun-maker. {25a} If ever he was a miser, that vice fixed itself upon him in his utter moral ruin.

Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles Andrew Lang 1878