David Marshall Williams.

[Halfneck]

Some of you might want to get rid of your M1 Carbines or Winchester Model 50 Shotguns. Wouldn't want you owning anything that was made by a criminal.

 

[Keith Montgomery]

This post is in regards to?

 

[DaveH]

probably poster thinks it has something to do with strider controversy.

A couple of months after Ed Browning's death in May of 1939, Winchester hired ex-convict David M. "Carbine" Williams, a some-time bootlegger who had devised a short-stroke gas piston design while serving a prison sentence for murder.