tucker301 Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 Carbine Williams "His floating chamber was used in one of the most popular American .22 semi-automatic rifles, the Remington 550-A. Later, in 1954, the Winchester Model 50 Automatic shotgun was launched. This, too, featured the Williams Chamber, making it the first semi-automatic shotgun with a non-recoiling barrel. Take a look at the U.S. patents for the highly successful Benelli Shotgun (U.S No. 4,604,942) and you will see Williams' Patent No. 2,476,323 cited." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMAC Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 Interesting life history of Mr. Williams, I dont know in todays society if he would have ever been so fortuante to turn his life around the way he did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tucker301 Posted August 10, 2007 Author Share Posted August 10, 2007 True. These days he'd probably get ten years added on to his sentence for designing gun parts, especially something to make one cycle more rounds in x amount of time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFPJ Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 He wouldn't even be able to sell his designs on ebay now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krr6581 Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 True. These days he'd probably get ten years added on to his sentence for designing gun parts, especially something to make one cycle more rounds in x amount of time. You know Tuck that would just about also hold true for John Browning. He also had a past and I don't think the law today would look very favorable on him either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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