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That's the thread I'm refering to, but I'm sure you already know that.
Chinn was a good researcher, but like a lot of other "historians" he was not a precise writer in the Hemingway tradition. That one perfect sentence always eluded him.
After rummaging through patents that didn't make the inventor anything, I'm not surprised at much of anything and there is very little that hasn't been tried in some form.
You may be right about the terminology and what he was refering to. We'll never know, and that's the tragedy of that kind of reporting. However, after 50 years of muddling through gun writers verbiage, I expect the worst and hope for the best at every new lead.
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