asked Lou Smith, head honcho at Ithaca, to re-design the NID for a 10 gauge 3.5" Magnum load- and Ithaca made 500 of them- as strong as the Winchester M21 double gun. in about 1914- and thus owned the rights to the LeFever name- In 1924, Ithaca dropped the Emil Flues design for their side-by-side guns, and redesigned and re-tooled for the NID- New Ithaca Double- sifferent locking and cocking mechanism, and receivers and barrels designed for Nitro smokeless powder loads- Older Ithacas, like the Flues,the Crass and others before 1901 had sometimes Damascus barrels, which are NOT safe with smokeless powder loads- The NID was very popular, and indeed a very strong gun- How strong? In 1932 John Olin, new head of the Winchester-Olin Corp.
in Ithaca, New York- bought out the old LeFever Gun Co.
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