Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "WF-51: A Swiss Intermediate-Cartridge Copy of the FG-42" video.

Didn't pretty much every nation with a domestic firearms industry look at German weapons post WWll. I am excluding those countries that were building licensed copies with no experience of domestic design work. One thing a lot of countries did as they began to industrialize was look at establishing their own firearms industry along with railroad networks. Building railroads if you produce any of the items domestically gets you a steel industry. Even if all you produce is your own rails. A domestic firearms industry is going to get you a core of trained machinists and tool makers that can then train others. On another note. The first major consumer product that offered a precision made product was the wood pencil industry (1). First you have to form the cores from graphite and a bonding agent. These have to be quite uniform. Then the wood halves of the pencil body need to be machined in multiple bodies. The cores inserted and the halves glued together. The grooves for the cores need to be the proper depth. Too shallow and the body won't close. Too deep and the cores fall out. Another commercial product that relied early on precision machinery was the mass production of pins and sowing needles. Of course all of this. Indeed everything produced by an industrial process rests on a machine tool industry and national or international standards of measurement. 1) The author of On Walden Pond. His family owned a pencil factory.
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