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...New products — including the folding Pistol Carbine and the M&P 5.7 handgun — accounted for almost one-third of its $114.2mn in first-quarter revenue....
...Post-punk veterans Public Image Limited began more than 40 years ago, formed as an experimental outlet following John Lydon’s departure from the Sex Pistols....
...Firearms manufacturer Smith & Wesson will also report earnings just weeks after two high-profile mass shootings in the US....
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...It was named after Dr William Butler, a court physician to King James I whose specialities included shooting pistols to shock patients out of epilepsy....
...The company, which makes firearms and hunting products and was previously known as Smith & Wesson, said its revenues tumbled 25 per cent to $172m....
...Norway’s $1.1tn oil fund cut its stake in American Outdoor Brands — formerly known as Smith & Wesson — by almost 90 per cent during last year....
...Shares in Sturm Ruger & Co, the largest US gunmaker, have fallen more than 20 per cent since the president took office, while American Outdoor Brands, the owner of Smith & Wesson, is down 60 per cent....
...Any reasonably sized branch of Boots, Woolworths or WH Smith would have displays of at least the current Top 40, and often the entire Top 75....
...Perhaps most people had school days punctuated with life-affirming lessons from the likes of Sidney Poitier, Robin Williams and Maggie Smith. I mean who would not trust Maggie with a Smith & Wesson?...
...This means they invest in companies such as American Outdoor Brands, formerly known as Smith & Wesson, and Sturm Ruger because they are constituents of an index, rather than based on the investment case....
...There are 10 examples of the whisky watch in gold and 40 in steel, priced at around £36,000 and £15,000....
...We pack guns,” says Mr Chilton, who owns a .223 calibre ranch rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun and a Smith and Wesson pistol. “I have a gun with me everywhere I go.”...
...Sturm, Ruger & Co shares rose 8.5 per cent to $62.29 while shares in Smith & Wesson gained 6.9 per cent to $22.88....
...Smith & Wesson says it will be discounting to take market share. Other upside could come if Smith & Wesson wins a competition to supply a new pistol to the US army....
...So that for a time, when she was out alone at night, she carried a .38 calibre 5-shot Smith & Wesson Chief’s Special in her jacket pocket....
...The strong sales have had a positive impact on earnings for Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger & Co, the two largest publicly traded gun manufacturers in the US....
...Bowie’s deep influence on UK, European and US singers and bands, from Talking Heads to the Sex Pistols and The Smiths, was inescapable....
...According to the man who sold him one outside a casino in Washington state, Smirnov, a Russian immigrant to Canada, said he had recently been robbed and wanted the Smith & Wesson handgun for his own protection...
...Smith & Wesson shares advanced 10 per cent to $14.34 after the US gun manufacturer issued full-year sales and earnings guidance that topped Wall Street estimates....
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...Smith & Wesson in September reported quarterly earnings at 40 cents per share, up 48 per cent compared with the same period last year....
...Pistols that take high-capacity magazines contribute another 30 to 40 per cent....
...As the chief executive of Smith & Wesson, one of the largest manufacturers of the new style of rifle, put it to investors in September, there is an important market in younger customers who are “coming of...
...Firearms manufacturers Smith & Wesson and Sturm Ruger rose 13.6 per cent to $10.26 and 9.2 per cent to $49.32 respectively this week as analysts said gun sales were expected to rise on fears that President...
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