One rumor I heard, don't know if it's true, was that they were discontinued because rifles obviously didn't leave marks on them and it was impossible to trace a fired bullet back to the weapon, that fired it.
Grizz
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"Indeed, no human being has yet lived under conditions which, considering the prevailing climates of the past, can be regarded as normal."
John E. Pfeiffer The Emergence of Man
written in 1969
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