On February 29, 1944, U.S. Navy Captain Stanley M. Haight filed a U.S. patent application for “a firearm which is adapted to be used when in actual physical contact with the enemy as in hand-to-hand fighting during warfare … the purpose is to provide the wearer with a lethal weapon which he may keep attached to his person at all times without undue difficulty.

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