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Originally Posted by Freddy
The phrase, "lock, stock, and barrel" comes from the parts of the British musket, the Brown Bess.
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I thought the expression came from the Harper's Ferry Arsenal, in the days of the"war between the states". According to what I learned, this was the first instance where the locks, the stocks and the barrels came from different suppliers for each item. But I can not trace back my source.
