America's large reserve of industrial capacity is offered as an explanation for the timing of the M3 grease gun. A country with substantial unused capacity faced less immediate pressure to simplify manufacture. That pressure increased once the limits of even American production began to matter. The explanation concerns why a cheap, readily mass-produced weapon could become more attractive as mobilization expanded.
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Industrial abundance delayed America's bare-bones gun
America's industrial reserve is offered as a reason why a simplified mass-production submachine gun became urgent later.