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Gun, ammo sales are brisk ahead of storm

On what would normally be a slow summer weekday, the three employees at Gretna Gun Works Inc. frantically tended to a crush of customers admiring the racks of shotguns and rifles lined up behind the glass counter.

Read About It: NOLA.com

Posted: 8/30/2008 11:17:38 PM

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