User blog comment:Basilisk448/Iconic Weapons/@comment-2075042-20100623205004

the british thaught that they were "gangster guns" and that proper soldiers should have nothing to do with them plus we took the french opinion seriosly, when they said that a weapon of pistol nature could not replace the rifle as the main infantary weapon. at the time the british rifles were among the best in the world. 1920s was when that was written