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If gunsmith LePage worked for Louis XVI, as this article says, he must have started inventing before he was 14 years old.Bigturtle (talk) 19:40, 26 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Not the first.
Alexander John Forsyth patented the percussion lock in 1807, so Lepage's work was later. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.212.132.128 (talk) 22:14, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
