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Some dry stuff....but with some tidbits on Krag Jorgensen numbers in the Army. Also, The Great War was not on the horizon. It was interesting on what the government thought was needed for some future war. This House Committee was trying to figure out what needed to be appropriated to the Army for fiscal year 1910/1911. This is part of the hearing with Brig. Gen. William Crozier, Chief of Ordnance, U.S. Army.

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

It is interesting.

A photo of Maj.-Gen. Crozier:

Did you notice that General Crozier referred to our rifle as the "Krag Jorgensen rifle" and by no other name? Perhaps due to the questioner using that term first and he continued to use it. Perhaps he wasn't as sensitive as those before that called it "the U.S. Rifle" or "the Magazine Rifle" and combinations there of. The U.S.A. once again had a "Springfield" rifle, a term used for the rifles before the Krag Jorgensen. There were no more excuses necessary to defend a foreign rifle design, although the Model 1903 Magazine Rifle was influenced by foreign design. The Krag Jorgensen was a purchased design and the 1903 Springfield was a copied design. But both were U.S.A. rifles to be proud of.
And as suggested in other posts, we are free to call them whatever we want to. Those from that era seemed to.

Here is a link to "Infantry Drill Regulations. The Manual of Arms, Adapted to the Magazine Rifle, Caliber .30." printed in 1897. Another one to download as a PDF and put in your personal electronic library.

https://books.google.com/books?id=WWoDAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:BU9u2HY4_BUC&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiM-6OxoJveAhVFiqwKHT-mBVkQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q&f=false