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    Bonus Garand Video - Gas Trap SN 7114



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    Gas Trap Quantity

    The number made was 48,119 as revealed in a 1941 Ordnance Technical Committee memo turned up by GCAicon member Eric Nicolaus and written up in the Journal long before Bruce wrote his great book. It's galling not to get the proper credit for a seminal discovery
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    That was fascinating and hilarious.

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