<p>Potlatch Mayor David Brown looks over the former sawmill site on Tuesday, May 15, 2012, in Potlatch, Idaho. The Potlatch community was once home to the nation's largest sawmill, but wants to be reborn as a gun town. Business leaders are actively seeking firearms and ammunition manufacturers to breath new life into Potlatch. (AP Photo/Nicholas K. Geranios)</p>
May 24, 2012
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May 24, 2012 9:08 a.m.
Potlatch looks to gun makers for economic boom
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.