Imagine a gunsmith getting up from his bench, where he was busy tweaking a gun’s stock for a customer, to answer a call from the State Department demanding he pay $2,250 every year or face the ...

PINCKNEYVILLE— John Mann of Pinckneyville claims he’s walking away from his gunsmithing bench tucked into the back of Mann and Son Sporting Goods.

Do-it-yourself gunsmithing projects are fun and can save you money. But if you are lost, confused or stuck, swallow your pride and bag it up. Sometimes having to get the job done right by a ...

At age 11, he applied naval jelly to his father’s rusty antique guns—stripping off the rust but also the bluing—in his burgeoning passion for gunsmith work. The fourth-floor workshop at Griffin & Howe ...