Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1915 — Still Use Gunflints. [ARTICLE]

Still Use Gunflints.

Down in a Wall street officer the war stocks were being discussed, and also the truth or falsity of the large orders said to have ben received by various industrial corporations. From this the conversation turned on improved war appliances and then some one said: - “Yes, but. I know a man who is still making and selling the oldfashioned gunflint.” There was some comment on this, arid then the first speaker said that his friend had a large factory in England for the making of gunflints and exported thousands of them every year. “They are usgd in various tropical countries where the natives still use the old flintlock muskets,” said the Speaker. “Then there are several countries where the British government sees to it that no modern arms reach the hands of the natives. The government permits the sale of the old flintlocks for the killing of game, but would at once confiscate any more modern style of firearm. My friend goes ahead year after year making the old gunflints and finding a good sale for them, but I don’t think that the present war has caused any increase in the output of his factory,”—Wall Street Journal.