James Willard "Jim" Harvey (May 7, 1893 - September 16, 1962) was an American designer of firearms, cartridges, and fishing lures, based out of Lakeville, Connecticut. Among his firearms innovations, Harvey invented the .224 Harvey Kay-Chuck handgun cartridge, a

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based on the .22 Hornet, modified to fire in revolvers, a predecessor of the

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. Harvey at one point designed

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s for revolvers, and modifying the barrels to remove the rifling and produce better patterning. However, the

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clarified that these smoothbore handguns were illegal under the 1934 National Firearms Act.

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