“Uncovering the Hidden Genius: The Surprising Origins of the World’s First Machine Gun!”
“This is indeed a very curious world. I was the first man in the world to make an automatic gun. It is astonishing to note how quickly this invention put me on the very pinnacle of fame. Has it been anything else but a killing machine, very little would have been said of it. From the foregoing it will be seen that it is a very credible thing to invent a killing machine, and nothing less than a disgrace to invent an apparatus to prevent human suffering.”
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