Jim Harvey (firearms)

James Willard "Jim" Harvey (May 7, 1893 - September 16, 1962){{cite news |author= |date=September 17, 1962 |title=Suicide Bullet Ends Life of Arms Expert |url=https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A14BC54A46AACE2D6%40GB3NEWS-17760DCF47775CD8%402437925-17760BD124716069%405-17760BD124716069%40 |work=Bridgeport Post |location=Bridgeport, CT |access-date=May 9, 2024}} was an American designer of firearms, cartridges, and fishing lures, based out of Lakeville, Connecticut.{{cite book|author=Carl F. Luckey|title=Old Fishing Lures & Tackle: Identification and Value Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L8MMozmVi58C&pg=PA246|date=9 November 2010|publisher=Krause Publications|isbn=1-4402-1784-X|pages=246–}}

Among his firearms innovations, Harvey invented the .224 Harvey Kay-Chuck handgun cartridge, a wildcat cartridge based on the .22 Hornet, modified to fire in revolvers, a predecessor of the .22 Remington Jet.{{cite book|author1=Jim Supica|author2=Richard Nahas|title=Standard Catalog of Smith & Wesson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aUb20H1UFCIC&pg=PA183|date=20 December 2006|publisher=Gun Digest Books|isbn=1-4402-2700-4|pages=183–}}

Harvey at one point designed shotgun shells for revolvers, and modifying the barrels to remove the rifling and produce better patterning. However, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms clarified that these smoothbore handguns were illegal under the 1934 National Firearms Act.{{cite book|title=Field & Stream|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5aKOmPvA9PYC&pg=PA16|date=November 1971|pages=16–|issn=8755-8599}}