I love the Carbine Williams story. He was in every aspect not a team player or a corporate man, but a fiercely-independant free-thinker - you know, like the guys who made America great? This makes him stand out to me regardless of his various foibles. The very fact that Winchester made every attempt to discredit him and make light of his contributions to the development of the carbine convinced me that they were lying to protect their corporate image. The one thing they could not dismiss is the fact that he did invent the short-stroke gas piston operating system of the M1icon Carbine, because he had this patent on it - U.S. Patent 2,090,656.

Aside: I have no doubt why the words 'corporate' and 'coprolite' are so similar. Did I ever mention my definition of a team (in the corporate sense)? That's a bunch of jackasses hitched up to do the bidding of an a..hole with a whip.