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  • Mayor David Brown checks out a former sawmill site in Potlatch, Idaho. The community was once home to the nation's largest sawmill, and hopes to be revitalized as a gun-making town. Business leaders are actively seeking manufacturers. (Associated Press)

    Idaho town seeks to lure gun and ammo makers

    This small community in the forested, western foothills of the Rocky Mountains was created as a company town to house workers for the nation's largest white pine sawmill, and its tidy homes and straight, tree-lined streets are a testament to its planners.


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