American Handgunner March/April 1981

had happy endings, it would close withanother gold medal for the U.S. Unfortunatelyit was not to be, and a series ofmisfortunes befell the guns and teams.During training immediately before theGames, McMillan's number one gunbegan to experience malfunctions. LouWilling, the team gunsmith, and FrankGreen found 'problems in the magazinelips which required adjustment. Lackingthe special fac;tory snap gauge, they did itby trial and error until the gun functionedreliably again.Shortly after the U.S. team arrived inMexico City, McMillan's two guns werestolen. The panic that followed the theftresulted in two shipments of replacementguns being sent to McMillan. The firstshipment arrived quickly, but was held upin customs, and nothing could persuadethe customs officials to let the guns outbefore all the proper paperwork was completed.A second shipment was sent, onlyto be held up also. The Mexican policeaverted an international incident by recoveringthe stolen guns in two days. Theywere returned to McMillan at the sam~time that customs decided to let the otherguns go, so at least McMillan had enoughguns.When the rapid fire matches were com-". • . J,ut one can onlywonder w"at mig"t "ave"appened if everyt"ing"ad gone well." ipleted, McMillan finished in seventeenthplace. As a gentleman and sportsman,McMillan never made excuses or blamedsomething or someone else for his score,but one can only wonder what might havehappem,d if everything had gone well.As stated before, High Standard sparedno expense in the development of therapid fire guns, and the cost was high.When pressed, Snyder stated that the totalcost of the project might have exceeded$10,000 per gun.The recent sale of its museum and experimentalcollection by High Standardcontained eighteen of these guns. Exactlyhow many more were made is not known,for some were scrapped in various stagesofmanufacture, and others were destroyedin testing, so it is possible that there are afew more around. If the total is twenty orthirty, the surviving guns must be regardedas extremely rare. In Olympic competition,according to the often quoted Baron deCoubertin, "Winning is less importantthan the fact that one has competed." HighStandard did compete, and its guns containthe distilled thoughts of many dedicatedmen, a considerable display ofYankee ingenuity, and perhaps most importantof all, the evidence that IIIIII!IIlsomeonegave a damn! ~AMERICAN HANDGUNNER· MARCH/APRIL.1981t1med-Ubrf.'llOnd SoIiIl,fJhnftii..fable to the g8R,r8i publk:.tobrl-aon Gun' Lubricant contains molybdenumdisulfide in a paint-like binder andmeets military specifications MIL-L-2339B andMIL-L-46147. It is used on high speed rapid fireguns (large and small caliber), aircraft, tanksand spacecraft, to mention afew. It is apenna­..nent lubricant and once applied' should last thelife of the gun, depending upon its use. 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