A RARE and almost unique 4-barrelled sporting gun by Charles Lancaster is expected to sell for £18,000-24,000 in Gavin Gardiner’s auction of Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 in the Upper Grosvenor Galleries at Sotheby’s, 34-35 New Bond Street, London, W1A 2AA. The sale will start at 2pm. Gavin Gardiner said:

As you know, The Gunmakers is closed at weekends. Or, at least, that's the theory. In reality, we're booked up most Saturday nights for private parties (click here for details). In the last ... when cask beer accounted for over 80% of takings*. * Yes, that was your party, Tony.I'm the landlord of The Gunmakers Arms in Clerkenwell, a wonderful little pub in my favourite part of London.

Freedom Group, a holding company for an assortment of gunmakers  majority owned by the private equity group Cerberus, is planning a public offering. At Footnoted, Michelle Leder spotted the following note in a SEC filing from Freedom Group arguing that the Obama administration is one reason why prospective investors should get in on the action. Our industry has experienced a significant ...

... record in 2009, according to Treasury Department data, with tax revenue due from guns up 42 percent and revenue due from ammunition at 49 percent. Recently, analysts have said earnings reports from gunmakers seem to show demand for weapons slackening. The increase in gun buying during the past year explains a large part of the increase in ammunition sales to the private market, experts on the ...

... a record in 2009, according to Treasury Department data, with tax revenue due from guns up 42 percent and revenue due from ammunition at 49 percent. Recently, analysts have said earnings reports from gunmakers seem to show demand for weapons slackening. The increase in gun buying during the past year explains a large part of the increase in ammunition sales to the private market, experts on the ...

... a record in 2009, according to Treasury Department data, with tax revenue due from guns up 42 percent and revenue due from ammunition at 49 percent. Recently, analysts have said earnings reports from gunmakers seem to show demand for weapons slackening. The increase in gun buying during the past year explains a large part of the increase in ammunition sales to the private market, experts on the ...