| The Missouri tornadoes badly damaged Guard armories in Pierce City and DeSoto. |
| Around the keep, Silas noted, were the barracks, the mess hall, and the armories. |
| The three-story, 88,000-square-foot facility is expected to serve as a model for future high-technology National Guard armories. |
| The glass structure that enclosed them had a crenellated top suggestive of historic armories. |
| Beginning in 1795 and 1801, respectively, these armories manufactured muskets based upon a.69-caliber French 1777 design. |
| Although the government built armories, nevertheless, about 60 percent of U.S. gunpowder was imported. |
