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2. Here, he demonstrates a lever-action Marlin. 30 Calibre hunting rifle. In the old bank vaults underneath police headquarters, have seen about 1,000(...)
2. Here, he demonstrates a lever-action Marlin. 30 Calibre hunting rifle. In the old bank vaults underneath police headquarters, have seen about 1,000(...)

2. Here, he demonstrates a lever-action Marlin. 30 Calibre hunting rifle. In the old bank vaults underneath police headquarters, have seen about 1,000(...)

Date10/23/1975
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Original Toronto Star caption: 2. Here; he demonstrates a lever-action Marlin. 30 Calibre hunting rifle. In the old bank vaults underneath police headquarters; have seen about 1;000 weapons so far this year and Millard estimates that by Dec. 31; he will have handled 1;200. Last year it was 950 and in 1973; - 1;160.
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Seized Rifles: Deke McBrien of the Metro police firearm registration unit examines guns seized in a Scarborough raid last year, when police raised alarms over bank robbery rates
Seized Rifles: Deke McBrien of the Metro police firearm registration unit examines guns seized in a Scarborough raid last year, when police raised alarms over bank robbery rates
7/26/1990
Apartment Arsenal, Metro police officers examine some of the 50 rifles, shotguns and handguns, along with ammunition and a crossbow, found in a one-be(...)
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11/23/1992
Dangerous haul: A small arsenal of handguns, rifles and shotguns seized by Metro police is destroyed in a metal crusher in this 1975 picture
Dangerous haul: A small arsenal of handguns, rifles and shotguns seized by Metro police is destroyed in a metal crusher in this 1975 picture
7/21/1975
and Mary Murphy, Long Branch, RIGHT, a stenographer by occupation made the rifle produced by fellow-workers an interesting subject for examination
and Mary Murphy, Long Branch, RIGHT, a stenographer by occupation made the rifle produced by fellow-workers an interesting subject for examination
6/2/1942
Make small arms big for our fighting men is the slogan of 3,000 women and 1,000 men at work in the Small Arms plant at Long Branch. A product of their(...)
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6/2/1942
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9/22/1977
Adding the finishing touch to the Covenanter tank she helped to make, this young war worker is seen chalking up a bit of inspiration on the tank's gun and mounting
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11/28/1942
Mrs. Agnes Harper, 51, of Cooksville, has lost a son in action with the R.C.A.F. Two others of her eight children are in the navy. She has been late o(...)
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9/1/1943
Down in Quebec women are playing a big role in a gun plant and here Isobel MacKenzie inspects six-pounder gun parts
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Two Young Women are here inspecting the equipment in a Ram tank before the gun shield is rivetted in place and the cannan installed. Designed by Maj. (...)
Two Young Women are here inspecting the equipment in a Ram tank before the gun shield is rivetted in place and the cannan installed. Designed by Maj. (...)
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Sixty per cent. of the workers at the factory where signal cartridges and flares are made are women, forty per cent. are men. Here are two of the wome(...)
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Too bad Hitler's not here, lament these eight war-working grandmothers as they train Sten guns on the photographer's assistant. There are some seventy(...)
Too bad Hitler's not here, lament these eight war-working grandmothers as they train Sten guns on the photographer's assistant. There are some seventy(...)
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