Comments by "ZGryphon" (@ZGryphon) on "Confederate Spiller & Burr Revolver (Presentation!)" video.

  1. I love how unsubtly shady things were back in those days. At least nowadays an arms company would try to PRETEND one of its founders wasn't involved in making purchasing decisions for its principal customer. (See also, the LeMat/Gen. Beauregard connection mentioned in a previous video.) Back then? Eh, who needs deniability? Meanwhile, Tucker & Sherrard were over there playing the classic Eli Whitney "spend the government's advance on something else" scam... it's all so cheerfully blatant. It's a shame industrial corruption isn't still so lacking in pretense.
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