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    Rigby locked-down and loaded

    Nov 02, 2020 4 minutes
    By Diggory Hadoke

    Many British businesses were faced with little option but to mothball everything during the current virus pandemic, putting workers on 80% salaries paid for by Government under the furlough scheme. Most did just that in March of this year.

    The London gun trade closed down - factories that could not provide the government-mandated social distancing of two meters between benches had no choice. Production ceased. Outworkers, or those with a bench at home, carried on doing what they could, but supplies of consumables became hard to order as the shelves of the wholesalers emptied, or because there was simply nobody there to answer the telephone.

    Bucking the trend, the team at Rigby decided on a very different strategy for facing down the

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