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His interest in the latter began in June 1861, when he observed tests of “the Union Repeating Gun,” modestly described by its salesman as “an army in six feet square.” Lincoln dubbed it the “coffee-mill gun” because its hopper, into which bullets were poured, resembled that culinary apparatus.
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