“Machine Gun 21,000”
by L. Ron Hubbard

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Publication date: December 1935

Original publication: Dynamic Adventures

Genre: Military & War

Story description: A US Marine faces a court-marshal for “losing” machine gun 21,000, but his fortune changes when he finds the man who stole it and quells a mutiny at the same time.

Currently available as part of the Stories from the Golden Age series, in the title Trick Soldier.