Horace Smith and Daniel Baird Wesson formed a firearms manufacturing partnership in Springfield, Massachusetts, that held many patents in the mid-1800s. They produced a variety of rifles, pistols, and...
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Smith & Wesson may be best recognized as the brand of choice for Dirty Harry, the movie cop who warned punks his .44 Magnum was "the most powerful handgun in the world." But that was in 1971, a...
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Expect to hear the words "Smith and Wesson" much more often.The gun maker Smith & Wesson SWHC is using its world-famous name to expand into new businesses.That's a departure for a firm that al...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:
UPTICK IN SHOOTING INCIDENTS (The Japan Times, an
English-language daily)
One month after Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito was shot to death ...
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Swedish police said Monday it was impossible to tell whether a handgun recovered late last year from the bottom of a lake can be linked to the investigation of the 1986 murder of Prime Minister Olo...
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Stockholm (dpa) - Tests of a gun that has been one of the more
promising leads in the 20-year-old probe of the assassination of then
Swedish prime minister Olof Palme have p...
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Former President George H.W. Bush got his World War II service revolver back Wednesday, 60 years after giving it to a Navy lieutenant aboard the submarine that rescued him when his plane was shot d...
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Reassuring words from the Federal Reserve and the White House helped bolster Nasdaq stocks Friday. The composite finished the day with a 1.2% gain, but volume was lighter than on Thursday.ICF Inter...
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Nasdaq stocks sank 1.9% Friday after a report showed U.S. payrolls in August dropped for the first time in four years. Volume was higher.Declining issues outnumbered advancers by 11-to-3. Action am...
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Horace Smith and Daniel Baird Wesson
Smith & Wesson takes aim at old markets
