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Maxwell G. Atchisson was born on February 17, 1930 in St. Louis Missouri. He attended the University of Missouri and Kansas City Junior College. He then served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a machine gunner. His superiors soon noticed his firearm acumen, which earned him a new position as a weapons instructor, conducting classes in automatic weapons characteristics, maintenance and firing techniques. He was honorably discharged in 1952. Although not as well known as John Browning or Gene Stoner, Atchisson was a very talented inventor and designer of weapons. During his career he was granted twenty-four patents. Many of Atchisson’s ideas were ahead of their time, with several having commercial success. A close examination of Atchisson’s prototype weapons will reveal a compilation of components from existing designs. The idea behind this thinking was that his weapons could be manufactured from many existing surplus parts, and thus be inexpensively produced.