> At a point later in the series, one of the characters on the other side of the war demonstrates this by taking three rifles and disassembles them, and then re

> At a point later in the series, one of the characters on the other side of the war demonstrates this by taking three rifles and disassembles them, and then reassembles a working rifle with parts randomly selected from the different three disassembled rifles Based on the real history of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchangeable_parts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchangeable_parts :- By around 1778, Honoré Blanc began producing some of the first firearms with interchangeable flint locks, although they were carefully made by craftsmen. Blanc demonstrated in front of a committee of scientists that his muskets could be fitted with flint locks picked at random from a pile of parts.