On August 21, 1882, James Alexander Williams from Fredonia, San Saba County, Texas filed a US patent application (issued as United States patent No. 269,766) for a mousetrap incorporating a handgun, "by which animals which burrow in the ground can be destroyed".
On August 21, 1882, James Alexander Williams from Fredonia, San Saba County, Texas filed a US patent application (issued as United States patent No. 269,766) for a mousetrap incorporating a handgun, "by which animals which burrow in the ground can be destroyed".
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