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Over the Christmas break I was shown a gun by Edwin Hodges by a guest at our shoot. I hadn’t heard of him before and a bit of quick research on the mobile revealed him to be an actioner to the London gun trade.

Initially I thought he was just an obscure craftsman but, in fact, he was a major player and produced guns in

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