My understanding of this has always been that Bennett was opposed to a Semi-Auto. He simply planned to buy the patent, then bury it, & not make the guns. John Browning new this which was why he insisted on the royalty arrangement. Had Marcus H Dodge not picked that inopportune moment to have his fatal Heart Attack it could have given Remington a really big boost as well.They did of course cash in to some extent with their model 11 for the US market, but they could most likely have had it world wide.

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