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Re: John B. Floyd and the guns...

Chief, I'm just curious. I was always taught that Eli Whitney, of cotton gin fame, was the pioneer of interchangeable gun parts. I remember a story of his piling several sets of parts to rifles he had made, and put them all together, with no parts left over, as a demonstartion for the Army. Stan

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Herters was great! *NM*