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Earlier this year I had the pleasure of visiting my friends at the Cody Firearms Museum and while having a look through their collection we came across a really interesting rifle. A Winchester prototype developed at the turn of the 20th century which had a T-shaped charging handle, something which today is synonymous with the AR-15/M16 platform.
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