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>Problem with firearms development is that it's gatekept behind licenses which kills innovation. Wasn't like that in the past

How do you figure?
Every ForgottenWeapons video on early gun development seems to go like:
>Colt at the time owned the patent on things that spin, and Browning owned a patent on self-loading and the concept of recoil
>Schubbert-Offsteiner had to get extremely creative to get around those patents, so he developed this system with 30 superimposed rounds in the barrel, which you fire in sequence by placing your fingers over these holes like playing a flute while winding it like a pocketwatch with this dial here.
>This saw some service in the Argentinian military for 4 and a half years, until Browning's patents expired and it was soon considered obsolete.
>Schubbert nevertheless refused to alter his design, declaring it already perfect, and spent 10 years shopping it around until his company filed bankruptcy and he sold the remaining samples for drinking money.
These days if you can imagine a small arms concept that wasn't already patented 40 years ago, tried, failed, and the IP expired then you must have good drugs.

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There has been no revolutionary improvement in Weapons design since the advent of the Fed