Dreyse needle gun
Locally the Dreyse needle gun had just been adopted, so the brothers turned to the Austrian ambassador to try to sell their own gun. He forwarded their new gun to Vienna for testing. It was here that American Norris of the Remington company saw the new Mauser rifle design. In 1867 Norris hired the Mauser brothers to go to Liège to work on a new design. He also stipulated that patents were to be taken out in his name and that a royalty would be paid to the Mauser brothers for rifles sold. Norris was convinced that he could sell the design to the French to convert their Chassepot rifles. The Norris-Mauser patent was taken out in the United States. Remington was outraged at the behavior of Norris and never made an effort to sell the new rifle.