crossbow
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On March 27, Benjamin Grayson, the deputy chief of staff at the Small Business Administration, sent an email to Samuel Scales, a United States Trade Representative staffer, concerning a Florida-based crossbow manufacturer, Barnett Crossbows.
From Salon • Sep. 18, 2025
In a description of a meeting involving Scales, Sevilla, Stallings and Grayson, parts of Grayson’s original email to Scales is passed along, including a reference to Busbice and his crossbow business.
From Salon • Sep. 18, 2025
The boss of an indoor shooting range, which offers crossbow target shooting as one of its activities, said licencing crossbows or making them harder to buy would not affect his business.
From BBC • Mar. 8, 2025
Figures show that crossbow attacks led to fewer than 10 deaths between 2011 and 2021.
From BBC • Mar. 8, 2025
Shooting across the clouds like a crossbow in the sky speeds a peregrine falcon.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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