GUNS Magazine December 1955 - Jeffersonian's Home Page

SHOOTING IRON(Continued from page 31)This is the onty-of-Its-kind Gun Encyclopedia which, sine* 1951, has been serving those whosevocation or avocation includes Fircarnu.. . 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