> Your knowledge of early machine guns needs some work. They weren’t belt fed... This is kind of my point. I know there's more to the story than I put in my co

> Your knowledge of early machine guns needs some work. They weren’t belt fed... This is kind of my point. I know there's more to the story than I put in my comment, and you know there's more to the story, but I think that the popular imagination has it that X inventor produced Y invention and that's that. Speaking of Stoner: here's a video I like about one of his 'failures' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SITipIcMFVU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SITipIcMFVU (Small Arms Solutions - AR18/180)